Dhapa is a locality on the eastern fringes of Kolkata, India. The area consists of land fill sites where the solid wastes of the city of Kolkata are dumped. "Garbage farming" is encouraged in the land fill sites.^[1] More than 40 per cent of the green vegetables in the Kolkata markets come from these lands. There are four sectors in Dhapa for dumping garbage that are filled with 2,500 tonnes of garbage per day.^[2] Kolkata (Bangla: কলকাতা; formerly known as Calcutta) is the capital city of the Indian state of West Bengal. ...

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1. ↑ United Nations Environment Programme article
2. ↑ "Vegetable lots to litter zone..." The Telegraph. 30 October, 2003

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