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 |
Vegetables constitute an important component of the human diet. They are recognized as health food globally and play an important role in overcoming micronutrient deficiencies and providing good health. They are natural sources of vitamins and minerals, like calcium, phosphorus, iron, carbohydrates and proteins. These nutrients are necessary for growth and build resistance against diseases and one of the way to get vegetables is by kitchen garden. Kitchen garden is a healthy activity which improves the nutritional status of the family as vegetables produced in the garden are consumed by household members. Kitchen garden can be described as a mixed cropping system that encompasses vegetables, fruits, plantation crops, spices, herbs, ornamental, medicinal plants as well as livestock that can serve as a supplementary source of food and income. The present study was conducted in Hubli and Dharwad taluks of Dharwad district during 2019-20. Snowball sampling technique was used to select 60 respondents. Of these 45 were urban and 15 were rural. The data was collected through personal interview method and analysed with suitable statistical tests. The findings of the study revealed that, large majority of both (rural 93.33 %, urban 84.44 %) the respondents had favourable opinion towards kitchen gardening. None of the respondents (rural & urban) are found in less favourable opinion category. With respect to knowledge, most (93.33 %) of the rural respondents had medium knowledge. Whereas, 53.33 per cent of the urban respondents had medium level of knowledge and 46.67 per cent of them had high level of nutritional knowledge. None of them fall under low level category of knowledge. The kitchen garden could be an effective motivational tool that could mitigate the problem of malnutrition. Hence the present study was conducted to study the opinion and nutritional knowledge of vegetables in the diet among the gardeners.
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