-IANS The Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) has issued guidelines for developing and maintaining Kitchen Gardens in all schools, both in urban and rural areas. New Delhi: All schools have been asked to set up a kitchen garden and instructions to this effect have been issued by the Centre to all the states and union territories, an official said on Friday. The Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) has issued guidelines...
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How Poshan Kheti Is Helping Enhance Diet Diversity And Incomes In Rural Bihar
-Outlook Introduced to Nutrition Sensitive Integrated Farming System (NSIFS), or Poshan Kheti, by JEEViKA, Sushma Devi found that food produced in the family farm and kitchen garden was the perfect solution to feed her family sufficiently. Sushma Devi, a small farmer in Purnea, Bihar, was not able to provide diverse foods to her family of six members - comprising her husband, in-laws and children. Each of them has different dietary...
More »Kitchen Gardens That Bring Nutrition, Livelihood Support and Protect Seeds -Bharat Dogra and Baba Mayaram
-TheWire.in Examples from Jharkhand, Karnataka and other places make a strong case for Kitchen Gardens in more parts of the country. Pali Biruli lives in Gondamara, a tribal village in Saraikela district of Jharkhand. When we stepped into the courtyard of her home to have a glass of water, the beauty of the surrounding greenery surprised us. Within a small place. she and her family members had managed to grow papaya, mango,...
More »When women stopped eating leftovers -Himanshi Dhawan
-The Times of India There is a saying in Harendragarh, a tribal village 50 km from Rajasthan’s Banswara town, that if a man eats the last rotla (chapatti) he will fall ill. So by default the last rotla, thinner than the rest and made from leftover dough along with the stale remains of the dal or vegetable made that day, would land on the plate of the woman of the house....
More »Ranchi to produce organic fertilizer from vegetable, kitchen wastes -Sanjoy Dey
-Hindustan Times Ranchi: Kitchen waste and heap of vegetables dumped at wholesale markets will no longer be the food for stray animals in the city. The wastes will now be processed and converted into organic fertilizer under Swachh Bharat Mission. Taking a cue from Hyderabad, Ranchi civic body has installed low-cost fertilizer manufacturing units at Khadgara vegetable market on Tuesday to convert the wastes into organic fertilizer. The initiative was started as trial...
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