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Cut-flower farms could be a sustainable option for mitigating water pollution.

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Floating Urban Gardens: Using Rainwater Collection for Hydroponic Farming

Turning City Spaces into Thriving Green Havens Urban spaces are getting tighter, but that doesn’t mean we can’t grow our own fresh food. Floating urban gardens powered by rainwater collection and hydroponic farming are a game-changer. Imagine lush, green floating farms on rooftops, balconies, or even repurposed city waterways. Sounds futuristic? It’s happening already! Why Floating…

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MGI Transforms Plastic Waste Into Floating Farms for Landless Farmers

Bangladesh is a country that faces multiple challenges due to climate change and environmental degradation. One of the most pressing issues is the loss of agricultural land due to rising water levels and floods. According to the Dhaka Tribune, there are over 4 million landless farmers in the country, who struggle to find livelihoods and food security. Moreover, the rivers of Bangladesh are heavily polluted with plastic waste, which carries 73,000 tons of plastic waste every day, as reported by The Daily Star. This not only harms aquatic life, but also contributes to global warming.

MGI, a conglomerate that has products that contribute to plastic pollution, felt it was their responsibility to help change this situation. After two years of research with agricultural scientists, they invented a new farming process that uses plastic waste as a resource. They created Plastic Farming, an initiative to turn plastic waste into floating farms.

MGI Plastic Farming To spread the project, they partnered up with Bidyanondo, a voluntary organization that brought the landless farmers together, and the local government’s agriculture officers who taught them the process of Plastic Farming. Together, they taught farmers how to collect plastic from water bodies and use simple bamboo frames, the collected bottles, water hyacinth, and crop seeds to begin Plastic Farming.

Initially over 500 farmers around Pirojpur and Gopalganj were taught about Plastic Farming. Then nationwide activations, a free website, video tutorials and manuals attached to MGI products were released to help other farmers. To take care of any potential microplastic, the farmers were shown how to release fungi around the sites.

The project had a positive impact on the lives of the farmers and the environment. It created 247,1054 acres of potential farmland, provided land to 750 landless farmers, formed the habit of collecting plastic among the farmers, collected 25 tons of plastic from the rivers, and reverted 750 climate refugees to farmers. The project also increased the nation’s productivity, strengthened food security and changed agricultural norms.

MGI’s Plastic Farming is an example of how a brand can take responsibility for its environmental impact and create a solution that benefits both the people and the planet. It is a testament to the power of innovation and collaboration to tackle the challenges of the 21st century.

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Farm on the Water

By Robbert Dijk

The demand of food is increasing every year more and more because the world population is increasing rapidly. People in the cities are becoming more distant from food which has lead to people living in urban areas to not have an idea where their food is coming from. It is also becoming more and more a challenging to bring good food to the cities.

For every problem, people come up with solutions. Three companies, Courage, Uit Je Eigen Stad, and Beladon, are working together to provide a solution for this problem. The plan they have developed is to build a floating farm; they will start in beginning of 2017 with building this in the port of Rotterdam and will be finished at the end of 2017.

The floating farm will be a dairy farm, that will produce fresh dairy products daily for the city. Not only will it be a production farm, it will also be an education center for children and students to learn about healthy food. Even more, the floating farm will also be a laboratory to experiment on how to make the farm more sustainable and self-sufficient.

Getting the approval to build this idea was not easy. There was one big reason some people were against this idea. The reason was that it was bad for the animal’s welfare, because cows could get seasick. To make sure this does not happen, the animals can walk to the mainland by use of a gangway.

In my opinion, I think this a perfect solution for a country like the Netherlands. The Netherlands is a small country with not much space for farms, but there is a lot of water that could be used to create these farms on.

What do you think? Is this the future of farming? Let us know.

For more information check the website: https://floatingfarm.nl/?lang=en