India: Roots on the Roof: How Rooftop Farming is Reinventing Farming in Delhi
Living Greens has installed rooftop farming systems in over 4,000 locations across 25 cities, cultivating approximately 250,000 square feet of rooftop space.
By Anoussa Salim, originally published by Resilience.org
Resilience
Aug 20, 2025
Excerpt:
Living Greens, originally based in Jaipur but operating in Delhi, realized that cities are expanding and becoming more disconnected from the systems that support them. In response, Tiwari launched a project that enables residents across Delhi-NCR (National Capital Region) to turn their rooftops and balconies into thriving kitchen gardens. Living Greens has installed rooftop farming systems in over 4,000 locations across 25 cities, cultivating approximately 250,000 square feet of rooftop space. With increasing efforts from community-based organizations like the Living Greens, it shows that urban agriculture systems, including rooftops and peri-urban areas, can meet up to 30% of seasonal vegetable demand in local contexts, demonstrating meaningful supplemental food supply potential.
These past few years have been quite difficult for farmers. India enacted three farm laws in September 2020, known as the Farm Law 2020, which many farmers were dissatisfied with and led to a large-scale backlash, causing it to be repealed in 2021. These laws state that although the government claimed that the Minimum Support Price (MSP) procurement would continue, the laws did not legally guarantee MSPs. Farmers have been concerned that trading outside the existing APMC “Mandi” system and the removal of state controls, including fees, would weaken the traditional procurement buffer over time, leaving them “at the mercy of corporations” with no price floor. Even after the law was repealed, they continue to struggle for their rights, and several individuals have fallen victim to suicide. For example, in Punjab, the outstanding Kisan Credit Card debt has climbed sharply (now over ?57,500 crore) even as the number of active borrowers slightly declined, implying a heavier per-farmer burden
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/india-roots-on-the-roof-how-rooftop-farming-is-reinventing-farming-in-delhi/
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