Nutritional Assessment of Farm Women under Nutri-Smart Village Programme
Vishakha Bansal *
All India Coordinated Research Project - Women in Agriculture, College of Community and Applied Sciences, MPUAT, Udaipur, India.
Sudha Babel
All India Coordinated Research Project - Women in Agriculture, College of Community and Applied Sciences, MPUAT, Udaipur, India.
Gaytri Tiwari
All India Coordinated Research Project - Women in Agriculture, College of Community and Applied Sciences, MPUAT, Udaipur, India.
Hemu Rathore
All India Coordinated Research Project - Women in Agriculture, College of Community and Applied Sciences, MPUAT, Udaipur, India.
Vishakha Singh
All India Coordinated Research Project - Women in Agriculture, College of Community and Applied Sciences, MPUAT, Udaipur, India.
Sumitra Meena
All India Coordinated Research Project - Women in Agriculture, College of Community and Applied Sciences, MPUAT, Udaipur, India.
Seema Dangi
All India Coordinated Research Project - Women in Agriculture, College of Community and Applied Sciences, MPUAT, Udaipur, India.
Shipra Chelawat
All India Coordinated Research Project - Women in Agriculture, College of Community and Applied Sciences, MPUAT, Udaipur, India.
Kusum Sharma
All India Coordinated Research Project - Women in Agriculture, College of Community and Applied Sciences, MPUAT, Udaipur, India.
Rupali Gupta
All India Coordinated Research Project - Women in Agriculture, College of Community and Applied Sciences, MPUAT, Udaipur, India.
Yeshwant Paliwal
All India Coordinated Research Project - Women in Agriculture, College of Community and Applied Sciences, MPUAT, Udaipur, India.
Sneha Jain
All India Coordinated Research Project - Women in Agriculture, College of Community and Applied Sciences, MPUAT, Udaipur, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
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.
Keywords: Nutritional awareness, nutritional assessment, smart village programme, overweight and obesity