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Original Research Articles                      Volume : 9, Issue:7, July, 2020

PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706
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Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci.2020.9(7): 3580-3586
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2020.907.418


Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture in Tripura, an Overview
Satarupa Modak*
Dr. Satarupa Modak, Assistant Professor, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha, India
*Corresponding author
Abstract:

Nutrition sensitive agriculture is one of the windows to eradicate malnutrition, hidden hunger and poverty elevation in sustainable and effective manner. Globally many initiatives were adopted to make countries free from the curse of malnultrition. India has also taken measures to check this problem by highlighting the term nutrition into the state comprehensive agricultural plans. With this view a comprehensive summery has been prepared with the published research materials on nutrition sensitive agriculture in Tripura. This study revealed that there are many unutilized fruit and crop spp. available in Tripura high in nutrient contain, traditional food preservation knowledge of ethnic tribes solve them off-seasonal nutrition requirement, and also there is increasing effort to set-up nutrition garden in every rural households of Tripura. Lack of regulated guidelines and focused nutritional studies may help to penetrate knowledge, understanding and adoption of nutrition sensitive agriculture by the farm families and agriculture practioners.


Keywords: jhum cultivation, nutrition garden, Nutrition sensitive agriculture, Unutilized food species, Traditional method of food preservation

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Satarupa Modak. 2020. Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture in Tripura, an OverviewInt.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci. 9(7): 3580-3586. doi: https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2020.907.418
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