Gopalganj, Pirojpur farmers grow crops using disposed plastic bottles

Business Desk :
Meghna Group of Industries (MGI), one of the leading conglomerates of Bangladesh, has taken the initiative as part of their corporate social responsibility in maintaining environmental sustainability.

For plastic farming, the disposed plastic bottles are collected from the environment.

These plastic bottles are then used to create floating beds to farm by using water hyacinth compost.

The initiative has been implemented amongst the landless farmers in Tungipara, Gopalganj and Pirojpur after researching for almost 2 years.

Officers from Upazila Agricultural Office trained the landless farmers on the techniques of plastic farming.

There were also other activities that include showing plastic farming video tutorials to the villagers and creating a dedicated website.