Urban Agriculture
 | Urban agriculture (UA) is a broad term for food cultivation and animal husbandry on urban and peri-urban land (Tornaghi, 2014). Urban agriculture started in the 19th century and gained popularity worldwide (Batt and Paschapur, 2020). There are nine forms of urban agriculture: home gardens, allotment gardens, community gardens, community-supported agriculture, commercial, vertical agriculture, edible landscaping, rooftop gardening, and informal agriculture (Nicholls et al., 2020), aquaponics and hydroponics; two more added to the list. Below are some interviews with urban farmers involved in farming activities on the Yamuna floodplains of Delhi. |
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Respondent name: Ramvati
Age: 42
Place: Yamuna Pusta
Brief Introduction: Ramvati has lived with family on Yamuna Pusta for six years. She is a permanent dweller of this place and only involved in urban farming, and lady finger, ridge gourd, and marigolds are the most prominent crops produced by her. For more details, kindly visit the below URL.
Respondent name: Santosh
Age: 55-60
Place: Yamuna Pusta
Brief Introduction: Santosh has lived on Yamuna Pusta for 30 years, and her husband died three years ago. She is living here permanently and is involved in farming, and spinach and fenugreek are primary vegetables, and she harvests marigold flowers. For more details, kindly visit the below URL.
Respondent name: Soniya and Ragraj
Age: 60 and 63
Place: Yamuna Pusta
Brief Introduction: Soniya and Ragraj have been married and have lived on Yamuna Pusta for 20 years. Both are permanent residents of Yamuna Pusta, but for a few days, they go to their village, which is situated in Uttar Pradesh. Cauliflowers, ridge gourds, and bottle gourds are the primary growing vegetables. For more details, kindly visit the below URL.
Respondent name: Pushpa
Age: 37
Place: Yamuna Pusta
Brief Introduction: Pushpa is a 37-year-old woman who has been living on Yamuna Pusta for the last nine years with his husband and three children. She is a permanent dweller of Yamuna Pusta, and her family's total earning comes from farming. She leased the most expensive farmland, i.e., Rose Land; other than that, she also harvested vegetables such as lady fingers, brinjal, etc. For more details, kindly visit the below URL.
Respondent name: Meena
Age: 45
Place: Near Lohe ka pul
Brief Introduction: Meena claimed that her 3-4 generation also lived on the same land in Shastri Park near Lohe ka pul. She is a permanent resident of this place, and her whole family has been involved in urban agriculture for the last 7-8 decades. And cauliflowers, brinjal, ridge gourd, and marigolds are the primary crops that they harvest. For more details, kindly visit the below URL.
Respondent name: Leelavati
Age: 50+
Place: Near Lohe ka pul
Brief Introduction: Leelavati has lived with the family on Yamuna Pusta for more than 22 years. She is involved in urban farming and said that few people living near Lohe ka pul work as daily wage laborers. spinach, coriander, and fenugreek are the most prominent crops produced by her. For more details, kindly visit the below URL.
Respondent name: Lekhraj
Age: 50+
Place: Near Lohe ka pul
Brief Introduction: Lekhraj has lived near Lohe Ka Pul for eight years and worked on farmland on a crop-sharing (Batai). He's a permanent resident of this place, but during monsoon season, he also worked as wage labor. Cauliflower, brinjal, and spinach are his most prominently growing crops, and most of the output he sold in Mandis. For more details, kindly visit the below URL.
Respondent name: Keshoram
Age: 62
Place: Yamuna Pusta
Brief Introduction: Keshoram is of the oldest people involved in urban agriculture on Yamuna Pusta and has lived here for approximately the last 35 years. He's a permanent resident of Yamuna Pusta and cultivating crops like Cauliflower, spinach, ridge gourd, etc. He also claimed that he had lease paper of all 32 lands of Yamuna Pusta, which DDA allotted in the 1950s to compensate ITO farmland. For more details, kindly visit the below URL.