The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to address multiple issues under one initiative, taking ahead the government’s plans to teach kids farming skills, while creating awareness about climate change and its mitigation, and encouraging terrace farming through projects implemented at its own school buildings. As a pilot initiative, the BMC has collaborated with NGOs Project Mumbai and Living Greens to set up facilities at 25 civic schools to teach terrace and urban farming.

The project was launched by Minister of School Education Deepak Kesarkar on Saturday at Dadar`s Woolen Mills BMC school. As part of this project, six vegetable beds fitted with a drip irrigation system have been set up on the terrace of the school where tomato, bitter gourd, bottle gourd, lady finger and spinach have been planted.