Daily Food Intake and Nutrient Intake by the Farm Women

Abstract- Women invariably perform the duties of both employees and the housewives. This dual role entails heavy mental and physical effort which often leads to complete exhaustion of women due to over work. Good health is a requirement throughout life and vital to women in terms of their daily activities, but nutritional anaemia is a major problem for women in India. To overcome these problems daily diet of the women should be nutritious. But health is a crucial area where no due attention has been paid for women. The study was carried out from two agro – climatic zones of Maharashtra. Nanded district was selected from Central Maharashtra Plateau zone and Nagpur district was selected from Central Vidarbha zone. This research consist sample of six hundred farm women 200 each from urban, rural and tribal areas. The respondents were interviewed personally. In the present study, anthropometric measurements, daily food intake and nutrient intake of the respondents were calculated. Results of this investigation indicated that average height of the farmwomen was 149.46 cm, average weight noted was 51.20 kg and average Body Mass Index was 22.88. It was seen that except nuts and oilseeds and meat and meat products all the foods groups were satisfactorily consumed by majority of the selected respondents and the nutrient intake of the selected women was normal or satisfactory. Index Terms- Daily, farm women, food intake, nutrient intake I