Nutritional Assessment of Farm Women under Nutri-Smart Village Programme

Abstract

The objectives of the programme were to promoting nutritional awareness, education and behavioural change in rural area involving farm women and school children, harnessing traditional knowledge through local recipe to overcome malnutrition and implementing nutrition sensitive agriculture through homestead agriculture and nutri-garden. For this study, All India Coordinated Research Project on Women in Agriculture, MPUAT, Udaipur adopted five villages of Badgaon Panchayat Samiti to make Nutri Smart Villages i.e. Madar, Thoor, Brahmano ki hunder, Feniyon ka guda and Loyra. Regarding nutritional, health and hygiene practices, 57.07 per cent of the respondents followed poor practices. Majority of the rural women were vegetarian. Regarding BMI of respondents, 40.53 per cent women were pre-obese and18.12 per cent were obese. Awareness generation is required regarding importance of good nutrition.