Mokokchung, August 4 (MTNews): Around 60 women under the aegis of Women Department Mokokchung village were imparted with the awareness on the topic of nutritional gardening on August 4, a press release from KVK Mokokchung informed.
The awareness camp on nutritional gardening, which is gaining ground these days, was held under NARI program with the concept of providing different nutrients round the year to the family members of a household maintaining kitchen garden through cultivating different varieties of vegetables and fruits in the spaces available around the house.
The resource person from Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Mokokchung, Moainla Longkumer (Technical Officer) gave a deep insight into the different kind of nutrients found in food and stated that if properly maintained, the nutritional garden is like a pharmacy from where we can get different mineral, vitamin & nutritional supplementation. She elaborated on the importance of nutritional garden, the different steps involved and components on how to start one, the crop cycle/ crop rotations that is to be followed and the layout of the nutri-garden. She also highlighted some common and exotic vegetables which have many health benefits and can be taken up for cultivating in the garden.
Water being an integral part of agriculture, the women were also given an awareness on the importance of rain water harvesting and conservation by another resource person Imtilemla ACTO (Soil Conservation).
