Vol. 7, Issue 5 (2019)
Backyard kitchen gardening for nutritional security in tribal areas of Adilabad district, India
Author(s): Poshadri A, Praveen Kumar Y, Sunil Kumar M, Shiva Charan G, Raghuveer M and Rama Devi A
Abstract: Many backyard areas from small to large farmers of tribal families remain fallow or unutilized, which is a common phenomenon in tribal areas of Adilabad district. There is a chance to bring these backyards under diverse vegetable production through kitchen gardening round the year including growing and management of quick growing vegetables in a scientific way. This ultimately will play a vital role in ensuring of food and nutritional security and also can provide supplementing income to the tribal families. Based on socioeconomic level of tribal women farmers, who are interested and having backyard space were chosen for backyard kitchen gardening intervention in the adopted tribal villages of KVK, Adilabad and other tribal hamlets. From 2016-2017 to 2018-19 around 130 Kitchen Garden kits have been distributed among 150 tribal women beneficiaries from 18 villages, under Tribal Sub Plan (TSP) programme of KVK, Adilabad. Each kitchen garden kit contains 12 different vegetable seeds. It can be concluded from the study that backyard kitchen gardening in tribal areas decreases expenditure on vegetables, increase the availability of varied vegetables and green leafy vegetables in the diet, increase community connection after starting kitchen gardening activity and earned Rs. 1500 to 2500 per annum.
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Poshadri A, Praveen Kumar Y, Sunil Kumar M, Shiva Charan G, Raghuveer M, Rama Devi A. Backyard kitchen gardening for nutritional security in tribal areas of Adilabad district, India. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(5):4502-4504.
