04 Apr Kitchen garden for nutritional security in urban population
शहरी आबादी में पोषण सुरक्षा के लिए किचन गार्डन Vegetable crops can be grown in kitchen gardening in vary limited space of the residential area to meet the daily requirements of vegetables of a family all the year round. It ensures a healthy diet containing macro, micro nutrients, vitamins and bio active compounds by producing diverse kind of vegetables. The fast food in city areas has evolved with the changing lifestyles of the young population. This fast food contributes little or no nutrient value to the diet, but instead provides excess calories and fat which affects health and resulting in obesity, loss of appetite, peptic ulcer, etc. Vegetables play an important role to make our food palatable, easily digestible, balanced and nutritive. Vegetables grown in kitchen garden are fresh, safe, rich in nutrient and energy and superior in taste and quality in comparison to vegetables available in market for consumption. Kitchen garden for nutritional security The demand of nutritious vegetables is met by kitchen garden which not only improves availability of quality vegetables but also add diversity to diet, chemical free vegetables. It made the availability of fresh and safe vegetables all the year round. Efficient and effective use of land for growing of vegetables for throughout the year. Efficient utilization of kitchen waste and water to produce...