Very nice effort aniqa

Nice to see the Kitchen Gardening Cluster of RSPs (I am also part of this cluster) and formed community level clusters of 20 women and 10 men in village Nilore for kitchen gardening.

dear all working on kitchen gardening

greeting

 please share the process of land preparation before kitchen gardening because during my initial sensitization sessions about nutrition and its relevancy with fresh vegs at home mostly female asked about this.

Activity 1: Women Group formation at Village Nilore

Kitchen gardening can be a catalyst to introduce a community based approach and For setting up Small women group  this is critical factor in beer valley because of mobility of woman is limited. For this As a first step I meet with some community elders and some activist and introduce and discus My Micro intervention and request arrange door to door visit for selection of   interested community members. Visit are done by the Female Recourse Person along with local activist and tell them what we intent to and also distribute Pamphlets about Kitchen gardening and Fix date and Vanue to meet with members of the community interested and willing to participate in the Programme. In that Final meeting we fully discus Project Goal and Objective and also implantation method. At the end of this meeting a group of 10 interested women of different age group is formed.  

To sensitize, motivate and enhance knowledge of group member to words Nutrition Sensitive approach, Healthy diet and how Kitchen Gardening help to this cause following awareness Sessions are planned  at Village Nilore:

1. Importance of Balance Diet and Roll and Sources of different Micro and Macro Nutrients
2. Importance of Vegetable in healthy Diet 
   
3. Causes and Effects of Malnutrition  
4. How Kitchen Gardening Helps Fight Malnutrition and poverty

Challenges :

• Dependency on availability of Water
• How to maintain women's interest & focus from start to completion.
• Seasonal nature of activity make it more difficult to ensure that it will be continue and replicate in next planting season 
• Cultural limitation which limits to access to women by outsiders especially Males
• Women are more interested for Aids and grants   

Activity 2: 1st Awareness Raising Session at Nilore

Topic: Balance Diet & Its Importance, Role & Sources of Micro & Macro Nutrients

Purpose of session: To educate the participant  what  they should  eat in by consuming a variety of foods in the right proportions to maintain healthy life.

On 2nd Aug 2016 1st Awareness raising session was conducted by Resource person Miss Zaib Gul attended by 13 Participants (women)  at Home of Mr. Naheed from 4 : 00 PM to 5 : 30 PM. The session started with the discussion about their eating behavior to know what people already know about the topic, after this she describe Why we take food, what is Balance Diet and what is the importance of Balance Diet for Healthy life. After this she describe What are the important Micro & Macro Nutrients, their Source, Role of particular Nutrient in body function and Health and What are the indications and effects of deficiencies of Nutrients.

Activity 3: 2nd Awareness Raising Session at Nilore

Topic:  Importance of vegetables

Purpose of session: to educate the participant about importance of vegetable so that they produce and consume more vegetable.  

The session is started at 3: 30 PM at Mr. Naheed home there is 12 women are present in session. Linking with previous session there is general concept that if lot of meat, fish, Milk, butter is part of food than it is healthy diet and as many of them are belong to low income families therefore they cannot afford it. So to clear this misconception we educate participants that these all should be part of our diet but not in that huge proportion. For healthy life Vegitable, fruits and Cereals play very vital role. Vegetables are primary sources of essential vitamins and minerals. A variety of vegetables will help you obtain the nutrients. A diet high in  vegetables can help protect you against cancer, diabetes and heart and many other disease.

Activity 4: 3rd Awareness Raising Session at Nilore

Topic: Malnutrition

Purpuse: To educate & sensitizes the group member to about Sever effects of Malnutrition so that they improve their diet.

On the 13^th Aug 2016 3^rd awareness raising session is organized at same Venue that ie Mr. Naheed’s Home at 4: 00 PM. In this session was attended by 14 women. In this session we describe what Malnutrition is and that It results from a diet lacking in energy and protein because of a deficit in all major macronutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats and proteins and how it effects especially in growing age. During discussion it reveals that lack of knowledge, non-availability of Nutritious and balance diet and poverty are basic causes of malnutrition. In the end we describe how our Intervention can be a solution to this problem.

Activity:               Community Visit and meetings with influential and Activist

Venue:                 Nalaki & Ghanari

Dated:                  20^th July to 24^th July 2016

Objective:

• To introduce the basic theme and objective of project  
• Understand the area for group formation
• To arrange a community meeting for detail introduction of MI
• Formation of Group

Activity:

As a starting step I meet with activist and local government VC members, In which describe My MI and then Field visit was conducted with the help of Community activist of respective villages i.e Nalaki & Ghanari. I visited door to door, meet with women it was a casual visit according to the respect of culture & cover all social economic strata in village. We started work with greeting & observe informal casual discussion. We used local language with female, avoided the word that is not understood by the female, convey our massage and invite them for meeting at one of our activist home. In that meeting I discus my Micro intervention in detail, Objective methodology of implementation and expected results.  

Result:

• I have found 2 groups (1 at each Village) of 20 committed women  .
• We have understood the area.

Activity:                                                               Awareness Raising Sessions  

Venue and attendance :                                       Nalaki 13 participant & Ghanari 10 participant

Dated:                                                                  23^th July 2016 & 24^th July 2016

Topic:                                                                   Mother and Child Health and Importance of Proper Diet

Objective:

• To educate the mother about importance of proper diet during and after Pregnancy   
• To sensitize mother importance of breastfeeding for children  healthy mental and physical growths
• To raise awareness about nutritional needs of growing children

Activity:

Activity was started with the recitation of Holy Quran. After introduction, I briefed about agenda and objectives of session. . Firstly I discussed role of Diet for healthy diet, which type of diet is necessary for mothers during and after Pregnancy, I also discussed possible adverse effect if mother is under nutrain during this period. After this I discussed Dietary needs of growing children and its importance for their Mental and physical growth.

Activity:                                                              Awareness Rising Sessions  

Venue and Attendance :                                      Nalaki 11 participant & Ghanari 10 participant

Dated:                                                                 29^th July 2016 & 30^th July 2016

Duration:                                                              About 90 Min

Topic:                                                                  Balance Diet and Local food groups that are source of Different Micro and Macro Nutrients

Objective:

• To educate the participants about Balance Diet and its importance    
• To educate about important Micro and Macro Nutrients and their Sources in local food Groups

Activity:

After recitation of Holy Quran, 1 briefed participant about Balance diet its definition and importance. With the Help of Food pyramid I describe what amount of food group is required for healthy life. With the help of Charts and Table I also explain the participant important Micro and Macro food components, their Sources, role in body proper functioning and symptoms of their deficiencies in body.     

Activity:                                                              Awareness Rising Sessions  

Venue       Nalaki                    Participant :           10                  Time:     10 : 30 Am to    11 : 00 am      Dated: 6 Aug 2016        

                Ghanari                  Participant:             12                  Time:     10 : 00 am  to   12  : am         Dated: 4 Aug 2016

Topic:                                                                  Breastfeeding 

Objective:

• To to encourage breastfeeding and improve the health of babies 

Activity:

               with reference to international breastfeeding week  session was conducted in both villages to protect, promote and support breastfeeding.I motivate and sensitize the participant about the importance of breastfeeding for the children with social, economic, medical and also with Islamic aspects.Breastfeeding is the best way to provide infants with the nutrients they needs.

After Baseline survey and FGD at village Nilore, I have mobilized community members oriented about the Nutritional foods, nutritional sensitive agriculture and also formed male and female groups for establishment of Kitchen Gardens.

Kitchen Gardening Module in Urdu also developed and disseminated in the targeted communities.

Two KITCHEN GARDENING Trainings (02 days each) were conducted in village Nilore  and 22 women and 10 men participated the training and learnt the useful techniques and knowledge to grow the nutritious food within available small space and other resources.

Important Topics and Agenda of the 02 days training (31-8-2016 to 01-09-2016)

According to Mr. Shafiq Hussain, Master Rafiaque  (the participants); they are already involved in agriculture production, but they were unaware the important aspects of the farming, as all the villagers are growing only seasonal crops and know they will start vegetable growing to meet the house hold needs as well as to sale out in the market. 

All the twenty women were very happy to learn the Kitchen Gardening techniques and they are also enthusiastic to establish Kitchen Gardens and start the organic food production at house hold level.

Useful information regarding Health, Nutrition and  agriculture also shared by Ms. Shazia Hina (IC) and the women & men (Participants of the training) are  very happy and thankful to Ms. Shahzia for sharing the useful experiences and project objectives. 

Activity 5: 4th Awareness Raising Session at Nilore

Topic: Kitchen Gardening 

Purpuse: To promote kitchen Gardening .

On the 20^th Aug 2016 4th awareness raising session is organized at same Venue that ie Mr. Naheed’s Home at 10: 00 am. This session was attended by 12  women. In this session we describe that kitchen gardens could help rectify problems like malnutrition and be a factor in the achievement of health and nutrition goals by boosting nutrition level of the poor help alleviate poverty and benefit the environment.

Nutrition in Mountain Agro-Eco System

Beer Union Council District Haripur NMA Minimum Dietary Diversity Score

Topics are selected.

1-       Awareness rising about importance of kitchen gardeing

2-       Kitchen grading as a good hobby for females.

3 – Awareness rising in the community regarding production of food.

4- Capacity building regarding kitchen grading at household level.

5- Kitchen grading promotion messages.

6- Importance of nutrition and balance diet.

7- Knowledge share about kitchen safety and hygiene condition.

8- To change the behavior of the people towards kitchen grading.

9- How kitchen grading provide us fresh and healthy food.

10 – Kitchen grading in Pakistan and others countries.

11 – Seeds distribution for kitchen gardening.

12- To guide them to increase the productivity for sustainable agriculture.

13- To create interest of females in kitchen gardening and agricultural production.

14- The main crops production in the areas.

15 – Females participation in kitchen grading and agricultural production.

16 – Kitchen grading at small level to increase the productivity.

17- Knowledge share regarding kitchen gardeing.

IMPORTANCE OF KITCHEN Gardening

 Kitchen Gardening

Many housewives have started gardening activities at home as it helps pass time and gives a good output. Kitchen garden can comprise of a wide range of fruits, vegetables and spices grown at the backyard of your house. Kitchen garden is not necessarily outside the kitchen door. It can be in the backyard near the kitchen or to the wall adjacent to the kitchen. There are quite a few tips for kitchen gardening and to utilize vegetable gardening to its fullest. You may grow tomatoes, chilly, onions, tamarind, basil, curry leaves, lemon and so on. There is a large list of plants you can grow in vegetable gardening. It depends on the climatic conditions, soil type and your dedication. Here are some tips for kitchen gardening.

Tips for kitchen gardening are:

1. Nurture: Your plants need a lot of nurturing in the initial stage. Each plant has different needs and necessities. You must work accordingly and provide the nutrients required.

2. The Sunbath Area: Always choose the backyard space that receives an ample amount of sunlight. The sun is the source of energy for plants and it stimulates the growth of plants. Plants should get an ample amount of sunlight for 5-6 hours a day. Therefore, avoid shady areas for growing your vegetable garden.

3. Continual Process: Kitchen gardening is not a once in a week procedure. Once started you have to continue and nurture your garden well like a kid.

4. The Water Content: The soil chosen for vegetable gardening should have sufficient water content and should be naturally drained regularly. Too much or too less of water is not appropriate for plants.

5. Maintain the Garden: Once you plant your crop, maintain it well. Each crop has different harvesting periods. When harvesting take good care of avoiding damage to the crops. This is an important tip for kitchen gardening.

6. Prepare the soil: The soil where you are planning to put your vegetable garden needs to be prepared. Remove the rough stones and patches from the soil. Add compost to make the soil good for gardening.

7. Rotate: Just like the Crop Rotation Technique used in farming, rotate your plants according to seasons. This will keep the soil fertilized and give you a variety in vegetables and fruits.

8. Plant Selection: Always select the vegetables and fruits that you want to grow beforehand. The selection should be based on the soil type, the suitability of the crop to the soil and climatic factor and the daily requirement of the plant.

9. Water the Plants: Regular watering is very necessary. Imagine a day you spend without water. The same the plants go through when not watered regularly. Especially the saplings need water as their roots are not yet developed to absorb water from deep soil depths.

10.Design: Make a proper design and layout of your vegetable garden. You must be sure of which crop or plant to use and where to use the same. The layout will make your garden look organized. The maintenance also reduces and becomes easier.

In its simplest form, a kitchen garden produces fresh fruits, vegetables and herbs for delicious, healthy meals. A kitchen garden doesn’t have to be right outside the kitchen door, but the closer it is, the better. Think about it this way: The easier it is for you to get into the garden, the more likely it is that you will get tasty things out of it. Did you forget to add the chopped dill on your boiled red-skinned potatoes? No problem — it’s just steps away.

Starting a Kitchen Garden

If you have to choose between a sunny spot or a close one, pick the sunny one. The best location for a new garden is one receiving full sun (at least six hours of direct sunlight per day), and one where the soil drains well. If no puddles remain a few hours after a good rain, you know your site drains well.

After you’ve figured out where the sun shines longest and strongest, your next task will be to define your kitchen garden goals. My first recommendation for new gardeners is to start small, tuck a few successes under your belt in year one, and scale up little by little.

Prepared by : Sidragul (RSP)

1-       Activity was started with the recitation of holy Quran by a volunteer participant after that an introductory session of RSP and Participants accomplished to develop interaction. Furthermore proceeding RSP presented a brief introduction of organization and the objective of the IC inter corporation to promote the nutrition values and sustainable agricultural development in beer union council. At first previous meeting decisions were revised and meeting agenda was shared with all participants. After providing an over view of all pre requisites, came to the follow hygiene in their daily routine fresh foods and vegetable can improved the nutrients deficiency in the childrens and females female is appreciated the IC efforts for doing the best work the betterment of health issues and also introduced the organic farming Organic farming is an integrated system of farming which sustains the fertility of the soil, increases the productivity of the crops and enhances biological diversity and limits the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, increases the water holding capacity of the soil and makes nutrients availability to the crop plants. Ultimately the rich nutrient crops are encouraged to supply balance dietary food nutrition to the people and control over the effects of malnutrition and nutrient deficiencies. To disseminate the information to the people the work has been started under the MAAN project with the support of International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movement (IFOAM), in Beer Union Council of Haripur district. So females take interest in the agricultural development and told that we try to focus on kitchen grading as now we knows the advantages of kitchen grading and nutrition values and this way we can got fresh foods and vegetables for our families. Kitchen regarding importance and the female interest developed regarding.

Objective of the visit

1-To create interest of the female regarding kitchen gardening

2-        Awareness rising about importance of kitchen grading.

3 – Awareness rising in the community regarding production of food.

4- Capacity building regarding kitchen grading at household level.

5- Kitchen grading promotion messages.

6- Importance of nutrition and balance diet.

7- Knowledge share about kitchen safety and hygiene condition.

8- To change the behavior of the people towards kitchen grading.

9- How kitchen grading provide us fresh and healthy food and as a good hobby.          

10 – Kitchen grading in Pakistan and others countries.

11 – Seeds distribution for kitchen gardening.

12- To guide them to increase the productivity for sustainable agriculture.

13- To create interest of females in kitchen gardening and agricultural production.

14- The main crops production in the areas.

15 – Females participation in kitchen grading and agricultural production.

16 – Kitchen grading at small level to increase the productivity.

17- Knowledge share regarding kitchen gardening

Exposure visit to our respected RSP Mr abbasi and Amir shah groups.joint visit with other members to attend the training of sir abbsi group regarding kitchen garding i also working in the same area of the nelore to introduced my self with females of the group and give them short orientation about my work and also attend with my female colleges the theater drama which is also held in nelore village.we learn a lot and we have nice visits to the groups.

Activity : 2 Theatre Performance for  Awareness Raising

Topic: Organic forming and Kitchen Gardening

Purpuse: To encourage the audience for Organic forming and  To promote kitchen Gardening 

                                                                                     Theatre is an outstanding tool due to its accessibility to a wide range of audience. The combination of oral communication and physical expression cancapture and maintain the attention and interest of a great number of people over time. So it is one of best tool for social mobilization and awareness rising campaigns. Therefore Two Theatre plays for promotion of organic agriculture and Home base organic vegetable production/ kitchen gardening   were conducted at Village Nilore and Beer on 1st September 2016. About 50 women are present in each activity along with their children.

                                                                                     Theatre was performed by “Kook theatre Group” from Kook Resource Centre Haripur. The performance were played in local language i.e. Hindko. In these plays  we highlighted the economic and environmental benefits of Organic farming especially in term of human health, prosperity, the benefits to soil and water and Kitchen gardening can be an effective and domestic tool to curb the problem of food security, malnutrition and Poverty. Issue like gender equality, importance of good and balanced diet especially in girlhood is also discussed in these plays. 

                                                                                      Activity was highly appreciated and liked by the audience they says it was very interesting way to give knowledge with entertainment so people learn and enjoy theatre.

                                                                                       Ms. Shazia Hina from IC also attended the activity at Village Beer. At the end she addressed the audience and share useful information about nutrition sensitive approaches, benefits of home base Gardening and also MAAN goals and objective.  

Kitchen Gardening Training Report and Training Module in URDU language is attached

    Awareness Raising Sessions  

Venue       Nalaki                    Participant :           12                  Time:     11 : 30 Am to    1 : 00 am      Dated: 7 Aug 2016        

                Ghanari                  Participant:             12                  Time:     10 : 00 am  to   12  : am        Dated: 19 Aug 2016

Topic:       Malnutrition

 Objective : Sensitizes the group member to about adverse effects of Malnutrition and they improve their diet 

Key Points:

1. Define Malnutrition i.e. diet lacking in energy and protein because of a deficit in all major macronutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats and proteins
2. Adverse effects and consequences of Malnutrition especially in girls,
3. Root causes of Malnutrition i.e. lack of knowledge, non-availability of Nutritious and balance diet and poverty
   

Awareness Raising Sessions  

Venue                                    Nalaki                    Participant :           12                  

                                             Time:     11 : 30 Am to    1 : 00 am      Dated: 20 Aug 2016        

                                             Ghanari                  Participant:             12                

                                              Time:     10 : 00 am  to   12  : am        Dated: 21 Aug 2016

Topic:                        Importance of vegetables and home base gardening 

Purpose of session: To educate the participant about importance of vegetable so that they produce and consume more vegetable and promote                                 Kitchen Gardening

Key Information and Discussion:

                                                      In this session we describe that kitchen gardens could help rectify problems like malnutrition and be a factor in the achievement of health and nutrition goals by boosting nutrition level of the poor help alleviate poverty and benefit the environment. As for For healthy life Vegitable, fruits and Cereals play very vital role. Vegetables are primary sources of essential vitamins and minerals. A variety of vegetables will help you obtain the nutrients. A diet high in  vegetables can help protect you against cancer, diabetes and heart and many other disease.

Awareness session on Kitchen Gardening in village Nolak                                                                                                              

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Awareness Raising Session at village Tilhala Beer Union Council District Haripur

Awareness Raising Session at village Nolaki Kund Beer Union Council District Haripur

Group Formation

Second face to face capacity building of RSPs held in Peshawar

          Day third report

First of review feedback of the 2^nd day in points on chats every one give their feedback and explain points learning.

Some presentations of RSPs about their  are explain in detailed in which first of all Mr Baber oriented about the project components and important progress and efforts and how to link with the project then Mr nadeem explained about the areas of work and interventions goal and achievements with point wise after this every one give feedback about the RSPs presentation build their capacity more and learn from others linked with the project need and every one participated in all group work activity give them more chance to need analysis

Some presentations were prepared about the intervention of RSPs mr hammad from the university of haripur present presentation on post harvest loses in detailed he exceptionally explain what is post harvest and about its loses and how to prevent the loses every one give their opinion on the post harvest loses and in Group work more things will be covered in detailed he successfully. At the and questions answer session held at the end.

Next presentation from female side presented by Miss Sidra she shortly she over view about the intervention and about the community behavior change strategy and how much success till now after intervention she explain in detailed the goals and objectives of the work. And also feedback of the community members she oriented about the monthly and quarterly report in detailed and share about the progress.

Next and last presentation from program officer Miss Shazia present the presentation on report writing the session is based on the gaps and issues facing in reporting side explain step wise report writing methodology which are more helpful for clearity.at the end case studies is discussed of all rsps .cause study is divided in the rsps Mr Mehmmod Elahi .Manzoor, zaib .and sidra are selected for the cause.

Prepared by zaib gul

Outputs/outcomes of the Micro Intervention (Kitchen Gardening)  under NMA Project (By M. K Abbasi - RSP)

20 women and 10 men of village Nilore (UC Beer) trained in kitchen gardening and production of in-house vegetables  to meet the kitchen needs of the family. 

After Training, hand-holding and other support interventions; "KITCHEN GARDENING" culture promoted at around village Nilore, community members growing vegetables for their kitchen needs. The following are the pictorial highlights of the established (winter season's) kitchen gardens by the communities .

BY:  

Mian Khan Abbasi (RSP) - NMA Project supported by IC and IFOAM International

Respected  Mian khan Abbasi

excellent Outputs

Keep it up and best wishes for more outputs from other participants of your training

My Two days Kitchen Gardening training will be conducted at Village Ganhri and Nalki according to following schedule

•  10 Dec 2016 to 11 Dec 2016 at Village: Ganhri  from 10: 30 to 15 :00 PST
•   13 Dec 2016 to 14 Dec 2016 at Village  Nalki from 10:30 t0 15:00 PST

Progress Highlights of the last Quarter 2016 as on 31st December 2016

• Preparation of surface / plots
• Supported Demo plots (Winter season vegetables) 
• Hand Holding during Establishment of Home based kitchen Gardens 
• Follow up visits and meetings with community groups 
• Enterprise Development and Marketing ( one day Orientation session - of w/m beneficiaries at village Nilore) 
• 02 days Kitchen Gardening Training of Men group at village Nilore 

Outputs and results 

• 18 out of 20 women (group members) established in-house kitchen gardens and growing vegetable.
• Kitchen Gardening practices promoting among the villagers and 15 house holds (other than the direct beneficiaries) also replicated the practices and growing vegetables 
• 23 women and 25 male group members participated in training. Learnt the home based entrepreneurship and marketing/linkages development techniques
• More house holds especially women willing to involve in the project 
• 38 men actively participated the Kitchen Gardening Training and willing to promote the Nutrition sensitive agriculture  

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL  AND WISHING YOU ALL THE BEST

(MIAN KHAN ABBASI ... RSP)

Kitchen Gardening Training (Day 1 and Day 2)

Kitchen Gardening Equipment Distribution

Seed and Seedling Distribution 

Activity Report for Month of Dec. 2016 and Jan 2017

Activities:

• Group Formation at Village Beer
• Awareness Session
• 2 day Training On Organic Kitchen gardening
• Demonstration  of Kitchen Garden Plot
• Distribution of Seeds and Seedlings

• Group Formation at Village Beer:

                                                             At village Beer I started My Micro innervation with Theatre Performance on Organic Kitchen Gardening, which was attended by more than 50 women and also distributed pamphlets in first phase. So some activist and Community is already familiar and mobilized so after small meeting with Activits a group of 12 women is formed. In this group mostly women are already connected with Agriculture as they are helping their males in fields.

• Kitchen Garden Training :

                                                             Two days Kitchen Gardening Training was conducted at both villages i.e Village Beer and Nilore separately. The training is conducted by the Agriculturist and Trainer Raja Muhammad Riaz and Assisted by Female Assistant Naila Aslam. At both villages training was attended by 30 women (15 at each Village).  Duration of Training is about 5 hour per day i.e. 10 am to 3 pm.

                                                             Training methodology adopted by trainer was mixture of both Lecture and Participatory. Participants share their previous experiences and problem that they faced during cultivation of vegetable and fruits plants as they are already contacted with Agriculture. Training Manual was also distributed among the participant.

Agenda of the Training:

Day 1

a)      Introduction to Concept of Organic Kitchen Gardening

b)      Objective of MI

c)      Selection of Suitable  Plot for Kitchen Garden

d)      Prepration of Land for Kitchen Garden

e)      Type of Fertilizer

f)       Selection of Best possible Suitable Seed and its Sowing

g)      Intercropping

Day 2:

a)      Importance of Hoeing

b)      Watering methods

c)      Proper Distance b/w plants and rows

d)      Proper Look aftering of Kitchen Garden.

e)      Techniques used to Protect Kitchen Garden From Pesticides and Diseases

f)       Sessional Calendar  for Cultivation of Vegetable

• Demonstration  of Kitchen Garden Plot

                                                                              After 2 day training Trainer Practically demonstrate different Techniques and Methods for Preparation of Soil, Formation for Rows, planting and sowing of seed and seedling.

• Demonstration  of Kitchen Garden Plot

                                                                               After training seeds and seedling of following vegetables are distributed among the 30 participants of trainings

a)     Pea                                     b) Spinach        c) Onion                                 d) Maithi                        e) Coriander                       

•  Awareness Rising Session:

                                              5 session were delivered on following topics at Village Beer and Nilore

 Balance Diet and its importance for Healthy Diet

 Malnutrition and its effects

Importance of Vegetable and Concept of Organic Farming

 Kitchen Garden Source of Heath, Earning and Saving

(1)  Report of Enterprise & Marketing Training sessions

(2) Report of Kitchen Gardening Training (Male group)

2 Days Training on Kitchen Gardening Conducted at Village Beer

Kitchen Gardening Training Village Nilore

Prepration of Kitchen Garden Plot at Village Nilore

Exposure visit National Agriculture Research Center (NARC) Chak Shahzad Islamabad

Date and duration : 26/1/2017 

Organized by        :  M.K Abbasi and Sidra gul (RSPs)

Supported             :  IC

Participants           :  13 women and 12 men (community members) of U.C beer

Purpose of the visit

• To See, Observe and learn the latest techniques / technologies regarding agriculture production especially kitchen gardening and organic farming
• To change the behavior towards organic agricultural productions
• Linkages and Coordination between NARC and Community members

Results 

• 13 women and 12 men (group's members) visited and exposed / learnt the latest kitchen gardening and agriculture techniques/technologies.
• Improve the coordination between RSPs and community group members
• Create interest among male and females regarding kitchen gardening and agricultural production
• Group members interested to grow the improved verities of vegetables and fruits and also willing to place the order for seeds and seedlings for upcoming summer season
• Behavior change of the group members regarding nutrition and agricultural production
• Experiences sharing between each others

Kitchen Gardening Training and Distribution of Seeds and Seedling at Village Gahari

Kitchen Gardening Training and Distribution of Seeds and Seedling at Village Nalaki and Gadhari

Aim and objective:

Basic Aim of Training is to build capacity of Group members in area for adapting the Organic technology and improving their skills of producing-season vegetables in their Kitchen Gardens. Training was Held at villages Gahari on 9 & 10 Dec 2016 in which 12 women participated and 13 & 14 Dec 2016 at Village Nalaki, which was attended by 13 women. The training is conducted by the Agriculturist and Trainer Raja Muhammad Riaz .Duration of Training is about 5 hour per day i.e. 10 am to 3 pm. Training methodology adopted by trainer was mixture of both Lecture and Participatory. Training Manual was also distributed among the participant. Training agenda was as follow:

Day 1

1.         Introduction:

a)            Introduction Of Participants and their exiting Knowledge about Farming and Vagitable productions.

b)            What is Kitchen Gardening

c)            Aims and Objective of Micro Intervention

2.         Prepration of Kitchen Garden

a)            Selection of Suitable Plot for Kitchen Garden

b)            Prepration of soil for Kitchen Garden

c)            Selection of Best possible Suitable Seed and its Sowing

3.        Fertilizers

a)            Types of Fertilizers

b)            Methods for preparing Bio compost

Day 2:

1. Methords and Technique

a)       Hoeing

b)      Watering methods

c)       Intercropping

d)      Proper Distance b/w plants and rows

2)      Look aftering of Kitchen Garden.

a)      Techniques used to Protect Kitchen Garden From Pesticides and Diseases with using Chemical Antiseptic medicines 

3)       Sessional Calendar for Cultivation of Vegetable

Awareness Raising Session At Village Nalki & Gahri

Soil preparation for  Kitchen Garden Plots at Village Beer 

Organic Kitchen Gardens plots of Some of group members at Village Nilore. In these gardens women are growing winter season vegetables mostly green leafy vegetable like Pea ,Spinach, Onion, Maithi,Coriander and Garlic    

Organic Vegitable of Winter Season grown by the women groups of Village Nalaki and Gahari

Awareness Raising Session At Village Beer

dated: 13/ Jan / 2017

Attended By 22 Womens

Topic: Healthy,  Balance Diet and Importance of Vagitables

Hand Holding and Followup Visit to Beer

Awearness Session about "Protection of Food from Contamination" at Village Nallaki atteted by 12 Women

Follow Up Visit to  Village Gahari 

Distribution of Fruit plants and Vegetable Seedling Among 24 Female Beneficiaries of Village BEER

Variety of Plants and Seedling Distributed:

Fruit Plants: Orange, Lemon, Guava and Lokat

Vegetable Seedling:  Brinjal, Tomato, Capsicum, Pumpkin, Green Chili 

Followup of Kitchen Gardening interventions

Best ever Kitchen Gardening practices taught in training. Usage of limited land in available resources.

Second Seasonal seedling distribution of Kitchen Gardening 

Successful Case Study of Kitchen Gardening 

Followup visits of Kitchen Gardening interventions 

پاکستان زندہ باد  

Progress Report

Establishment of Kitchen Gardens (Summer Season - 2017)

During the month of Feb and Mar 2017, Seed/Seedling, Fruit and Forestry plants distributed among project beneficiaries in village Nilore (U.C Beer) for summer season kitchen gardening. 

Detail of the distribution are mentioned below: 

1. Fruit Plants         : (Apricots, Guava, Lokath, Orange and Lemon)
2. Vegetable seedling for Kitchen Gardening           : (Tomato, red chili, Eggplant, Tyndh, Okra)      
3. Forestry Plants  : (Goondh, Safida, Keekar, Phalai, Tali and Toot) 

Exposure visit and Coordination meetings with Forest and Agriculture departments

Arranged exposure visit and coordination meetings, community members linked with Agriculture and Forestry department.

7230 forestry plants gets and implanted by the community members.

Distribution of Summer Vegetable Seeds,Seedling and Fruit Plants at Village Nilore among 23 Families

Activity: Distribution of Fruit Plants and Summer Seedling

Venue: Gandhari and Nalaki

No. of Beneficiaries: 12 + 11 = 23

Varieties of Fruit Plant Distributed:  Orange, Lemon, Guava and Lokat

Varieties of Vegetable Seedling Distributed:  Brinjal, Tomato, Capsicum, Pumpkin, Green Chili 

Quarterly Progress Highlights (Jan to March 2017)

Activities  

• Coordination meetings with RSPs and experience sharing 
• Planned community level monthly meetings, hand holding during establishment of (winter season) kitchen gardens.
• Meetings and Exposure visits of National Agriculture Research center (NARC) Islamabad, District,s Agriculture/Horticulture & Forestry departments Haripur. 
• Meetings and linkages with women entrepreneurs (different skills and businesses) 
• Procurement and distribution of quality seeds & plants among selected beneficiaries and hand holding / followup of kitchen gardening  

Outputs/Results

• 12 m and 13 f participated in the exposure visits, coordination meetings and improved linkages with other businesses and services
• 29 house hold supported and kitchen gardens established in the targeted area

Detail of the distribution of seeds/seedlings and plants are mentioned below: 

1. Fruit Plants         : (Apricots, Guava, Lokath, Orange and Lemon)
2. Vegetable seedling for Kitchen Gardening           : (Tomato, red chili, Eggplant, Tyndh, Okra)      
3. Forestry Plants  : (Goondh, Safida, Keekar, Phalai, Tali and Toot) 

Quarterly Progress Report

(Jan to March 2017)

• Activities:

1)     5 Awareness Raising  Session About Home based Organic farming

2)     4 Follow up and Handholding Visit of Winter Session’s Kitchen Gardens established  by the 4 Women groups

3)     Distribution of Summer Season’s Vegetables Seeds and Seedling

4)     Formation of Summer Season’s Vegetable Kitchen Garden

5)     Distribution of Fruit Plants among the beneficiaries.

• Output/ Results

1)     38 Winter Session’s Kitchen Gardens established by 40 women of 4 groups at  Village Beer and Nilore

2)     4 Women Groups are active in promoting Home base vegetable production more families are willing to be part of Programme.

3)      48 Families establish Summer Season’s Vegetable Kitchen Garden in targeted villages.

Quarterly  Report

During Last three Months i.e. Jan 2017 to March 2017 following Activities are carried out by me in my target Area Nilore and Gahari of UC Beer.

1)     Awareness Sessions:

8 Awareness Raising Session conducted in both villages. 12 t0 15 women are present in per session. Topic of discussion was (a) Promotion of Kitchen gardening Culture (b) Sensitized Women about Healthy Diet and Hygiene.

2)     Follow-up Visit:

After Kitchen gardening training kitchen gardens was established by 23 women. I visited at regular interval to those Kitchen garden’s plots for careful support or guidance.

3)    Distribution of Seed, Seedling and Fruit Plants:

                                   For Sumner seasons kitchen garden seed/ seedling of Brinjal, Tomato, Capsicum, Pumpkin, Green Chili and fruit plants of  Orange, Lemon, Guava and Lokat distributed among 26 Families of targeted area. 26 Summer vegetable kitchen garden established.   

Quarterly Report from January to March 2017

• Awareness Sessions 8 Number
• Follow up visits 4 Numbers
• Coordination Meeting with National Programme Officer-to Review Progress and finalization of MI Interventions Reporting
• Monitoring and field visit of village Soha- Review of Cluster Progress and finalization of MI Reporting
• Distribution of Seasonal Seedling to 50 females farmers in villages Tilhala and Nolaki
• Two days training on advocacy, Urdu Language and Knowledge management in Islamabad on 15th and 16th March 2017 in Islamabad.
  • Case study on Kitchen Gardening – Mrs. Nadia
  • Booklet in Urdu – IEC material
    
    

Awareness Raising Session at Beer topic "How we can protect loss of Nutrient during cooking

HOME BASE Vegetable Production by Women of Beer Village

Awearness Session and Followup Vist at Nalaki and Ganhari Dated 26 April 2017

Followup Visit of Village Gahri and Nalki Dated 16 May 2107 Some of Summer vegetables and innovations in Kitchen Gardening  

Awearness Raising Session at Gahrai attended by 13 Women

Hygiene Promotion and Kitchen Safety Training

Duration: 1 day at each Village

Dates:      22-April-2017 at Ganhari 

                 23 April 2017 at Nalaki

Venue and attendance : Naliki attended by 10 Women 

                                       Ganhari attended by 12 Women

Obiective of Training:

                                        The Main objective of hygiene promotion is to help people to understand and develop good hygiene practices to improve personal as well as environmental especially kitchens hygiene , so as to prevent disease and promote positive attitudes towards cleanliness and minimized the chances of food contamination or poisoning.

Base Line VS END line of MDDS Consumption Comparison  of Village Nilore & Beer  

Base Line VS END line of MDDS Production Comparison  of Village Nilore & Beer