Vegetable Nutrition Garden: Effectual Method to Improve Nutritional Security in Rural Areas of Nanded District

Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Sagroli Tq. Biloli Dist. Nanded (Maharashtra, India) conducted study on 150 women who participated in nutrition garden demonstration. Information regarding socio economic status, signs and symptoms of anemia, expenditure on vegetables, knowledge regarding nutrition garden and their problems facing to grow nutrition garden were collected by using pre designed questionnaire. It was observed from the results that, almost all women were farmers (98.66%) by occupation. Equal percent (48%) of women were suffering from weakness and backache which are the signs of anemia. Whereas, 87.33 percent women reported the problem of unavailability of improved vegetable seeds and seedlings for developing nutrition gardening. A total of 98 percent women showed knowledge on proper sowing time and season after training and demonstration. Before training and demonstration, mean expenditure on monthly vegetables was 345.33±83.13 Rs. which decreased up to 170.83±61.26 Rs. after training and demonstration