SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS AND ADOPTION RATE OF KITCHEN GARDENING AMONG TRIBAL WOMEN

Kitchen gardens have helped to improve the food and nutritional security of tribal women as well as their family members. The kitchen garden has acted as a trap to this natural resource for the benefit of mankind in tribal area. From the study we concluded that majority of the tribal women had medium adoption rate about kitchen gardening (54.17 per cent) followed by low adoption rate and high adoption rate i. e 20.83 per cent and 25 per cent, respectively. From the result it can be concluded that nearly half of the tribal women had medium adoption rate of kitchen gardening. We can suggest the kitchen gardening in the tribal region is an important for increasing the income, improving the intake of fresh fruit & vegetables and health's. It helps in raise the standard of living of the tribes. The main point of building up a kitchen garden is to safeguard formal beliefs and social character of joint families. Potential benefits such as income and enhanced rural employment through additional or off season production, enhanced food security, increased availability of food and better nutrition through food diversity. To popularize the kitchen gardening among the farming community in rural areas, KVK Vadodara conducted large number of training programmes for the farmers to educate them about the importance of kitchen gardening and distribution of vegetable seeds and seedling to farm women. After getting training many farmers established kitchen garden and started growing vegetables for their domestic requirement.