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 31-03-2024
Agri Nutri Garden Campaign
Sl.No. District No. of garden formed No. of House Hold added to Nutri Garden Area (Acr)
1 Thiruvananthapuram 83036 83036 9.1416
2 Kollam 80210 80210 520.863
3 Pathanamthitta 51220 51220 621.72
4 Alappuzha 70367 70367 4.8996
5 Kottayam 74100 74100 823.28
6 Idukki 151710 151710 1820.52
7 Ernakulam 86905 86905 26.74
8 Thrissur 97138 97138 1165.656
9 Palakkad 73460 73460 14692
10 Malappuram 115570 115570 1386.84
11 Kozhikode 79690 79690 9561.104
12 Wayanad 26845 26845 3.2214
13 Kannur 69960 69960 839.52
14 Kasaragod 43160 43160 863.2
  Total 1103371 1103371 32338.71