The Harita Bhavanam, a joint initiative of the Kollam city Corporation and the Agriculture Department, was launched by Rajya Sabha Member K.N. Balagopal at a function held at the Municipal Town Hall here on Tuesday.
The scheme is meant to promote organic vegetable farming in the city through backyard and terrace gardens.
Free of cost
Assistant Agriculture Officer (Kollam) K. Shaji said that under the scheme, saplings of 10 vegetables, a banana sapling and a curry leaf sapling would be given free of cost to each family.
In the first phase, 3,850 houses in the city will be covered — 70 houses in each of the 55 divisions of the Corporation.
The project is being sponsored by a couple of banks. Mayor V. Rajendrababu presided over the function and P.K. Gurudasan, MLA, spoke.
