2. What is Urban Agriculture?
• Urban agriculture is the practice of growing edible plants in
urban spaces such as terraces, backyards, and unused plots of
land
3. Facts..
• 50% of the world’s population
lives in cities
• Low income urban dwellers
spend between 40% and 60%
of their income on food alone
• Only one benefiting from
agriculture is the middle man, neither farmer nor consumer.
4. City’s Food Needs
• Average purchase of fruits & vegetables to a
family is 1 kg.
• Middle- and upper classes in Bangalore count
up to 1 million in a city of 8.5 million. That’s
1000 tons a day.
• Average distance of travel of vegetables in
Bangalore : 100 km. That’s 30 liters for every 5
tons of fruits and vegetables.
• That’s 200 trucks a day!
5. The Benefits of Urban Farming
• Energy Saving: Urban agriculture produces food that is
truly local while reducing food miles (the distance food
travels before you get to eat it)
• Reduced Use of Pesticides: Crops produced on a
smaller scale are less likely to be devastated by pests
and disease, particularly when biodiversity is practiced
• Reduced Need for Preservatives: Food produced
within the city is not transported over long distances and
does not require extra measures to increase its lifespan
6. What it takes ?
• Sun, little water, cow dung or organic manure,
little soil.
• organic waste generated in the house, and co
ntainers
7. Recycled containers
• Recycled cements bags / poly bags
• Recycled drums
• Recycled containers
• Planter boxes
• Old tiers
• Concrete structures
• Any structure that can hold a garden
8. Locations
• Balcony: Vegetables like a couple of beets,
carrots, some spinach, methi, coriander, onions
can be grown in a container.
• Productive Public Spaces: Convert public lands
into productive farms of organic vegetable
produce
• Schools and Educational institutions: Make
students care for vegetable gardens whose produ
ce could be Used in their canteens.
9. Locations
• Corporates: Empty spaces around office
buildings could serve to grow veggies for employ
ees. Would serve to green office areas and make
employees healthy and happy – De-stressing for
the mind, a good exercise and relaxing for body
• Terraces: Apartment dwellers in cities could
take our services to reduce their food miles
by letting us convert their terraces into productiv
e vegetable growing spaces
17. Draining
• Add a layer of draining materials like, Coconut shells,brickbats,baby jelly or
Charcoal.
• Charcoal , apart from draining excess water ,retains the moisture for
plants
18. soil mix
• Terrace/Container garden soil mix consist of soil, manure, sand and coir
pith and other inert material like purlite, vermiculate to add volume and
hold moisture .
• Soil mix consist of soil, manure, sand and coir pith
19. Treat the seed
• Coriander seeds are crushed before they are sowed in the soil
20. Spread the seeds on soil
• A thick layer of seed to be spread over the soil
21. Cover it with a layer of soil
• After the seeds are been spread they have to be covered with a layer of
soil
