Assessment of attitude of frontline demonstrators towards kitchen gardening

Abstract

With the use of a technology called kitchen gardening, we can produce bacteria-free veggies at home using used utensils, clay flower pots, and empty tins. This exercise not only helps us save money and time, but it also gives the whole family a fun, healthy, and environmentally beneficial hobby. In light of this, the current study was carried out to learn how kitchen gardening affects the beneficiaries' nutritional security. The sample selection for the present study was taken from the Front-Line Demonstration (FLD) given to 150 numbers of female beneficiaries from the last three consecutive years i.e., 2017-18 to 2019-20 at different KVK operational villages. To know its impact on health, an eleven-point attitude scale which was developed by Anand Agricultural University Anand was used based on which data was collected and analyzed. Results showed that 44.00% of respondents had only secondary education, while 46.00% of respondents were in the middle age group. When it came to the size of their land holdings, 38.67% of respondents had between 1 and 2 ha, 37.33% had between 5 and 6 family members and a medium annual income, and the majority fell into the untrained category. Attitude towards kitchen gardening implies that the first rank (WMS=3.69) goes to the attitude that Kitchen Gardening is a constructive approach and hence it converts leisure time into a productive one. The second rank was given to the attitude of the beneficiary that it provides the opportunity to get fresh vegetables in all the seasons with a weighted mean score equal to 3.67. Very least number of respondents agreed with the statement that kitchen gardening is more hypocrisy than reality and hence scored last rank (WMS=2.89) in an eleven-point attitude scale towards kitchen gardening.