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 01-02-2025
Agri Nutri Garden Campaign
Sl.No. District No. of garden formed No. of House Hold added to Nutri Garden Area (Acr)
1 Thiruvananthapuram 19854 19854 1137.2
2 Kollam 14853 23446 396.82
3 Pathanamthitta 11438 11438 307.2
4 Kottayam 21666 21666 670.94
5 Idukki 16929 16929 506.54
6 Ernakulam 7035 7035 196.5
7 Thrissur 29358 29358 724.23
8 Palakkad 74555 80755 2233
9 Malappuram 33782 33782 978.6
10 Kozhikode 23296 23296 640.58
11 Wayanad 7847 7847 236
12 Kannur 21234 21234 484
13 Kasaragod 12616 12616 567.9
  Total 294463 309256 9080