National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The present study was carried out on nutritional garden towards improving nutritional security in farm households. India is one of the leading country in vegetable production but malnutrition problem especially caused by micronutrient deficiencies are in general family diet. The underlying cause may be lack awareness, illiteracy, low affordability, inadequate availability of vegetables and fruits. Recommended dietary allowances (RDA), daily intake of vegetables should be 300 gm/person including roots and tubers, green leafy and other vegetables. Malnutrition is a serious nutritional problem, resulting in different types of diseases, hampering physical growth and retarding brain development. Nutritional garden practices with strict adherence to sustainable technologies will be an everlasting solution. It ensures balanced household consumption of vegetables and fruits in their daily food habits and prevents nutritional maladies. The underutilized backyards of landless women not only serve the entire family with nutritious food but also get alternate livelihood. Homestead production of vegetables and fruits help combat malnutrition and diversify diets. Improved nutritional garden is better than traditional homestead garden. The improved nutritional garden involves many crops that can be repeatedly harvested to meet a family’s vegetable needs and economic return. Hence, nutritional garden is an important strategy to improve household nutritional security. The result of the study showed that nutritional garden has proved a feasible livelihood strategy for resource poor farm households and improvement in availability of vegetables for consumption in terms of nutrient as well as calorie intake and economic performances
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