While touring remotest parts of India during IFFCO’s Golden Jubilee celebrations last year, IFFCO Managing Director and CEO Dr U S Awasthi had gone to great lengths to make sure farmers learnt about the healthy practices of agriculture. He seems to have now focused his attention to urban agriculture.
In several of his tweets in recent times Awasthi lauds the role extensive plantation can play in the city’s life. Congestion, construction and automobile emissions are some of the factors responsible for bringing down the quality of city life and massive plantation is its answer, opine city planners.
“We should adopt this new technique of Urban agriculture. It can transform our lives in cities. This can provide fresh food, clean environment, remove stress,create job opportunities, will make things better around us and many more. Let’s grow more green in the cities”, reads one of the tweets of IFFCO MD.
In another tweet in which he posts photographs of clean streets with beautifully decorated line of trees he writes” Let’s grow more trees in our cities around us as greening our cities can improve our well-being and make #cities cleaner with more fresh air and happier places to live. All #IFFCO buildings are now #green buildings. Let’s grow at least one tree around us. #sustainability”.
During the past years, urban farming has become a world-wide trend. It is being claimed to be the future of food, and new “smart gardening” brands are popping up faster than ever.