To provide nutritious food to families is the prime goal of agri nutri garden. To compact malnutrition, the goal is to establish 10,00,000 agri nutri gardens across the state to ensure better nutritious support to the NHG members there by getting additional income to the farm livelihood. It aims in making the availability of fresh and nutritious vegetables, fruits, to provide healthy food thereby developing a healthy society to cope up pandemic diseases like COVID 19. Any five vegetables from the list which include tomato, bitter gourd, Amaranthus, Pumpkin, Coriander/Mint, Bhindi, Brinjal, Cucumber and two fruits trees saplings are being cultivated in agri nutri garden. In each ward, the project is implemented in selected 50 families forming a cluster. Each beneficiary is has to do farming in an area of not less than 3 cents adopting organic methods.

 

Data as on 01-09-2024
Agri Nutri Garden Campaign
Sl.No. District No. of garden formed No. of House Hold added to Nutri Garden Area (Acr)
1 Thiruvananthapuram      
2 Kollam      
3 Pathanamthitta      
4 Alappuzha      
5 Kottayam      
6 Idukki      
7 Ernakulam      
8 Thrissur 17969 17969 514.77
9 Palakkad 2955 9155 85
10 Malappuram   480 11.2
11 Kozhikode      
12 Wayanad      
13 Kannur      
14 Kasaragod 25 25 2.5
  Total 20,949 27,629 613.47