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V. K. Poshiya ¹, M. V. Tiwari ¹, A. D. Raj ¹

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1 Tribal Women Training Centre (N.A.U.,) Dediapada (Gujarat), IN

Abstract

Narmada district is tribal dominated district with 78 per cent tribal population distributed in all the five blocks of Narmada district. The 89 per cent of the population of the district resides in villages and depend on agriculture for their livelihood. Farmers of tribal women in Narmada district in ruler area with small backyard spaces have been using this space for commercial monoculture and disposing the produce in local market. However while purchasing the vegetables for household purpose from the same local market the poor tribal women has an obvious habit of purchasing the cheap vegetables irrespective of their nutritive value. This practice deprived them of a combination of nutritive vegetables from their menu especially due to higher prices. Poor economic condition of the tribal farm women and fragmented land holdings are the major constrains so necessary for making Backyard nutritional kitchen garden.

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V. K. Poshiya ¹, M. V. Tiwari ², H. R. Jadav ²

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1 Tribal Women Training Center, Navsari Agricultural University, Dediapada, Narmada (Gujarat), IN
2 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Dediapada, Narmada (Gujarat), IN

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V. K. Poshiya ¹, M. V. Tiwari ², H. R. Jadav ²

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1 Tribal Women Training Center, Navsari Agricultural University, Dediapada, Narmada (Gujarat), IN
2 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Dediapada, Narmada (Gujarat), IN

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V. K. Poshiya ¹, M. V. Tiwari ², H. R. Jadav ²

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1 Tribal Women Training Center, Navsari Agricultural University, Dediapada, Narmada (Gujarat), IN
2 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Dediapada, Narmada (Gujarat), IN

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Introduction : It is well known fact that the tribal areas are very poor regarding resources availability including scarcity of water. In spite of that a farm women Smt. Sarmista Ben Sahdevbhaivasava 21-year-old lady is a successful backyard kitchen gardener from Timbapada village of Narmada district. She has education only upto class XII and did not have any prior knowledge of low drip irrigation Kitchen gardening. She has about 1.00- acreland. Earlier she was growing one or two vegetable crops of local variety in her backyard in traditional way which was not enough to survive her family. She was always finding of suitable options to enhance extra income. She always takes a chance to change her situation to increase the income and improve the health and nutritional status of her family. A team of scientists visitedat Timbapada and contact Smt.Sarmistaben. The village was adopted by TWTC, Dediapada. So, by adopting the new improved variety of various vegetables in initial stage, she obtained more profit as compared to traditional variety and she fulfills their nutritional requirement and got more production and more income and the actual profit.

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