Agri Nutri Garden Week

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Agri Nutri Garden Week

Context:

  • DAY-NRLM celebrates Agri Nutri Garden Week as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav
  • A total of 76,664 ‘Agri Nutri Gardens’ were established in this week against the target of 7500
  • DAY-NRLM aims to encourage every poor rural household to create an Agri Nutri Garden

About the Initiative

  • Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Rural Livelihood Mission (DAY-NRLM) has observed ‘Agri Nutri Garden Week’ from 10thto 17th January, 2022 through awareness campaign and encouraging establishment of ‘Agri Nutri Gardens’ in the rural households.
  • It is the Mission’s agenda to support every rural poor household to have Agri Nutri Garden to fulfill the need of the family’s nutrition and any excess production can also be sold for income generation.
  • In line with Prime Minister’s vision of enhancing strength of Rural Economy and his clarion call of Atma Nirbhar Bharat, Rural India is showing the way with establishment of over 78 lakh Agri Nutri Gardens towards ensuring Food and Nutritional Security in Rural India. A total of 76,664 ‘Agri Nutri Gardens’ were established in this week against the target of 7500.
  • The initiative is also helping in promoting nutritional awareness, education and behavioral change in rural areas involving farm women and school children, harnessing traditional knowledge through the local recipe to overcome malnutrition and implementing nutrition-sensitive agriculture through homestead agriculture and Nutri-garden.

 

Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) :

  • It was launched by the Ministry of Rural Development(MoRD), Government of India in June 2011 as a restructured version of Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojna (SGSY).
  • The Mission aims at creating efficient and effective institutional platforms of the rural poor enabling them to increase household income through sustainable livelihood enhancements and improved access to financial services.
  • In November 2015, the program was renamed Deendayal Antayodaya Yojana (DAY-NRLM).
  • NRLM has set out with an agenda to cover 7 Crore rural poor households, across 600 districts, 6000 blocks, 2.5 lakh Gram Panchayats and 6 lakh villages in the country through self-managed Self Help Groups (SHGs) and federated institutions and support them for livelihoods collectives in a period of 8-10 years.

Source: THE HINDU.