Constraints in Adoption/Non Adoption of Kitchen Gardening

Kitchen garden plays an important role for rural families which provide diversification of foods in their daily diet. Most of the families having kitchen garden of different sizes are interested to improve the practice. But many people are facing different constraints while adopting the improved techniques of kitchen gardening. The present study was conducted with the objective to study the impediments/constraints in the adoption/non adoption of kitchen gardening by the rural people of two villages. This study comprised of households as respondents who were adopting or not adopting kitchen gardening. Thus, a total of 145 respondents comprised the sample of the study from two villages. The data were collected through personal interview method with the help of structured interview schedule. The study highlighted that socio cultural constraint was most serious constraint faced by the adopters and general and marketing constraint was the topmost constraint faced by the non-adopters of both locations. The non-availability of quality planting material of fruits and seeds of HYVs of vegetable, lack of knowledge about improved varieties, seed rate and sowing time, lack of knowledge about seed treatment, lack of knowledge regarding major pests and diseases identification and their management and lesser involvement of household women were reported major bottlenecks in successful adoption of kitchen gardening.