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A CASE STUDY ON HOMESTEAD VEGETABLES CULTIVATION: FOOD SECURITY AND INCOME (Pages : 6 - 10)

A field survey was conducted at Raichow village under Comilla district during November to December, 2007 to investigate the homestead vegetable production and its impact on family nutrition and income generation and involvement of female members to this activity. A total of 125 randomly selected homesteads were surveyed for this purpose through questionnaire and focus group discussion. On the basis of farm category highest number of farmers are marginal (44%), followed by landless (28%). In respect of total cultivated percent of households are highest in marginal group (46.9%) followed by small (36.8%) and medium (28.9%) group. The highest amount of vegetables was produced by the large farmer (1230.20 kg/year) followed by small (780.67 kg/year) and marginal (540.50 kg/year) and landless (260.50 kg/year) farmer. Production, consumption and distribution of vegetables increased from landless towards large farmer while selling increased towards poor farmers. The highest total income (Tk. 15992.60/year) and net income (Tk. 14542.60/year) were obtained from large farmer followed by marginal and landless farmer. Download