Babita Deegwal*, Akshay Chittora1 and S.K. Bairwa2
(Home Science Ext. Edu.) KVK, Dausa
1(SMS. Horticulture) KVK, Dausa
Sri Karan Narendra Agriculture University, Jobner (Rajasthan)
2Plant Pathology, ARS, Shriganganagar
Received-02.05.2021, Revised-16.05.2021, Accepted-25.05.2021
Abstract: At present time food insecurity, malnutrition and healthcare are the major problems faced in India. Kitchen garden plays an important role for rural areas, to provide verities of vegetables in their daily diet and fulfilling their dietary and nutritional needs. In the city areas 0f the country most of the families having kitchen garden of different sizes are interested to improve the practice, Home gardening can contribute to household food security by providing households with direct access to food that can be harvester prepared and consumed by household members, often on a daily basis. The present studywas conducted for availability of fresh and nutritive vegetables through nutritional kitchen gardening in rural areas of Dausa district. Also the objective of study was for aware and motivate to rural women about the nutritional kitchen garden during the tough time of COVID 19. Study was conducted in Dausa and Lalsot block of Dausa District, Rajasthan. Two villages, Adopted by KVK Dausa under,NARI (Nutri-Sensitive Agricultural-Resources and Innovation) programme, were selected from eachblock. The number of families for nutritional kitchen garden was selected from each village by random sampling method. In this way families from each village were selected, consisting the total sample of 92 respondents. The data were collected from each respondent through personal interview method with the help of questioner. The study revealed that a nutritional kitchen garden of 500 sq mt fulfills 83.03 per cent of their daily needs of vegetables but the actual consumption is 60.40 per cent.
Keywords: Kitchen gardening, nutrition, food security
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