Development of Organic Nutri-gardens to enhance food and Nutritional security in farm families

The main objective of introducing the concept of nutri-gardens was to encourage in farm families to cultivate healthy food crops in their home backyards. The KVK Kolar conducted nutri garden as a Front line Demonstrations for promotion of fresh vegetable and fruit consumption by the farm families du...

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Published inEnvironment and ecology Vol. 40; no. 4B; p. 2374
Main Authors Chikkanna, G S, Shashidhar, K R, Kattegoudar, Jyothi, Ambika, D S
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Kalyani MKK Publications 01.10.2022
Subjects
Adequacy
Ascorbic acid
Crops
Diet
Family size
Farms
Food
Food plants
Fruit crops
Fruits
Gardens
Gardens & gardening
Herbal medicine
Males
Medicinal plants
Nutrients
Nutrition
Nutritional status
Nutritive value
Plants (botany)
Vegetables
Villages
Vitamin A
Vitamins
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Summary:The main objective of introducing the concept of nutri-gardens was to encourage in farm families to cultivate healthy food crops in their home backyards. The KVK Kolar conducted nutri garden as a Front line Demonstrations for promotion of fresh vegetable and fruit consumption by the farm families during 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22. The study was conducted for three years in Kadadevandahalli village, Gundamanattha village and Shygatthuru, Srnivasapura Tq Kolar District. The farm families of 25 were randomly selected and made into three groups based on their family size; Large (6-8), Medium (4-6) and Small (2-4) where the total families were 5, 10 and 15 respectively. The total number of participants were 160, where males were 85 and 75 were females. *BMI classification showed that, malnourishment was most prevalent both in females and males (82.00%) respectively. It found that, training and demonstrations by KVK on nutri garden model help to increase knowledge of respondents on every aspects of establishment of nutri gardens. In this model, the vegetables and fruits were selected by taking care of balanced nutrition for family. Cross sectional design was inculcated and farm families were selected on the availability of the area, water and willingness of farm women to maintain the garden in all the seasons. Along with the vegetable seed kits perennials, fruit crops, super foods and medicinal plants were also supplied. The nutritional composition of Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) was computed using Nutritive Value of Indian Foods and compared the same with the nutrients intake. The percentage adequacy determined revealed that there was an increase in per cent of quantity of nutrients intake like proteins (21.82%), fiber (13.83%), vitamin A (23.87%), vitamin C (15%), Iron (14.29) and Calcium (18.34%). After introduction of nutrition garden, the consumption of fresh vegetables increased in the daily diet which contributed towards the upliftment of the nutritional status of the farm families.
ISSN:0970-0420