Gujarat Journal of Extension Education (ISSN 2322-0678)

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

Authors: B. L. Dhayal and B. M. Mehta

Publisher: Society of Extension Education Gujarat

Keywords: adoption rate, tribal women, kitchen gardening

Volume: 33

Issue: 1

Year: June 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56572/gjoee.2022.33.1.0004

Abstract: 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

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