This project aims to address malnutrition among children from backward classes in rural Maharashtra through establishing nutrition gardens. Over 5 lakh children aged 0-5 are malnourished in the state. The project will set up gardens equipped with HDPE beds with subsurface irrigation in hostels. This will provide nutritious vegetables to the children throughout the year. It will improve their health and development while also teaching them farming skills. The gardens will benefit over 37,000 students across 379 hostels with an estimated budget of 5.2 crore rupees over 6 months.

1. Eradication of malnutrition among backward class children
through setting up of
NUTRITION GARDEN

2. Thematic area:Recognizing above issue, School Nutrition garden is good for children's health and education,
and also it is good for learning they are highly practical and a direct form of education apart from practical skills
in agriculture and horticulture gardens are a living laboratory for the study of environmental issues and life
science.
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PROJECT SYNOPSIS:
Malnutrition is high in the 0-14 age group of children’s from backward class in rural areas of Maharashtra. Especially
teenage girls have high levels of malnutrition. Similarly, women and pregnant women between 30 and 45 years of
age are anemic. This is the highest number of malnutrition and deaths due to malnutrition in rural areas and tribal
areas in Maharashtra.
5 lakh 13 thousand 737 children in the age group of 0-5 years in Maharashtra are malnourished. And 75 tousand
411 children are severely malnourished. (source women and children's department Maharashtra)
Recognizing this issue, School Nutrition garden is good for children's health and education, and also it is good for
learning they are highly practical and a direct form of education apart from practical skills in agriculture and
horticulture gardens are a living laboratory for the study of environmental issues and life science.

3. PROPOSED PROJECT DISCRIPTION
• We want to tackle malnutrition! The goal of the project is to provide nutrition, through vegetables, throughout the year
to children in backward class student hostel’s. Every day these hostel kids will get a proper lunch. It will enlarge their
health and development. The children will also learn how to grow their own vegetables. We want to get this done
through innovative nutrition garden equipped by HDPE NUTRI-BED inbuild with advance subsurface irrigation system.
• To improve the nutrition and health status of children aged 0-14 years.
• To lay the foundations for proper psychological, physical and social development of the child.
• To reduce the incidence of mortality, morbidity, malnutrition and school drop-out.
• To achieve effective coordinated policy and its implementation amongst the various departments to promote child
development.
• To enhance the capability of hostel staff to look after the normal health and nutritional needs of the child through
proper nutrition and health education.
• To promote nutrition-based approaches in Children and To inculcate a lifelong skill of growing own vegetables and fruits
through Nutrition garden.
• Nutrition garden is good for children's health and education, and also it is good for learning they are highly practical
and a direct form of education apart from practical skills in agriculture and horticulture.
• Gardens are a living laboratory for the study of environmental issues and life science. It improves the environment.
• It will empower student to explore environmental concept and action beyond the confines of a syllabus or curriculum.
While everyone , everywhere, asserts the importance of “learning to live sustainably”
• To increase production of nutritious foods and its consumption
• To provide supplementary nutrition to vulnerable groups through local production of foods.
OBJECTIVE

4. PROJECT AREA
• Children’s of backward class between 0 to 14 years
• Greenery of hostel’s and atmosphere
BENEFICIARIES
ESTIMATED NO. OF BENEFICIARIES
ESTIMATED BUDGET
DURATION FOR EXECUTION OF PROJECT
• Backward class boys government hostel’s maharashtra
• Backward class girls government hostel’s Maharashtra
• Backward class and economically backward class girls government hostel’s Maharashtra
• 37593 students of backward class
• 379 Hostel’s
• 5.20 crore
• 6 month

5. PROJECT ACTIVITYS
 Today with the rapid rate of urbanization, many school and
hostel do not have free space to grow vegetables etc. For
them there is an effective alternative that is simple and
practical way i.e. Gardening in “NUTRIBED” Such a HDPE
container inbuilt with advance technology of subsurface
irrigation technique so it has a many benefits for school in
urban areas as they help to “green” the school and reduce
air pollution. Other major benefits are student learn to grow
vegetables in nutribed, understanding that a large piece of
land is not essentially required for this. Organic garbage such
as school scraps anything that decays, can be processed into
compost in such containers. Students will learn to think
creatively and out of the box, understand that a garden can
be effectively created everywhere. The greenery will
definitely beautiful School and make it a visually more
appealing place. It will enable school children to practice
“intensive” gardening through maximum utilization of
limited space. It will provide an opportunity to practice
“intercropping” (I.e. planting a variety of plants in one
container) which ensure the health of plants due to diversity.
Such gardens “make use of unused school spaces” (vacant
staircases, terrace, compound wall, school entrance sites,
etc.)
•Step1: Installation of nutribed and fitting of irrigation accessories
•Step2: Filling nutribed with black/ fertile soil
•Step3: Manuring and sowing of vegetables seed’s

6. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION OF NUTRIBED
• HDPE Nutribed is a readymade structural Unit.
• Fabricated size : L x W x H: 2438.40 mm x 838.2 mm x 228.60 mm
• Made from High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) Woven fabric.
• Laminated with LDPE (UV Stabilized).
• Heat-Sealed Joints. Drainage net on each corner.
• Thickness : 340 Gsm
• Inbuilt with: Two line of subsurface pipe : made from recycle rubber, length of each line : 2439 mm, wall thickness 2
mm , outer diameter 16mm , inner diameter 12mm. Working pressure 0.5 bar(7.5psi), PE lateral line , PE connector,
PE endcap and elbow , Support system of FRP rod and Pet wire.

7. ADVANTAGES OF NUTRIBED INBUILT WITH SUBSURFACE IRRIGATION SYSTEM
Protect crop from bad whether condition
Better germination , plant growth, root growth, improve productivity and quality of produce
Crop can be growing throughout the year best for high value vegetable crop.
Save up to 15% to 25% of water over drip/Sprinkler irrigation.
Save up to 35% to 45% of energy over drip irrigation.
Save up to 70% of fertilizer cost over drip irrigation.
Save up to 50% of weeding cost over drip irrigation.
Save up to 50% to 60% of labor cost over drip irrigation.
Save up to 90% of maintenance cost over drip irrigation.
No damage from rates, rodents, dogs, insects etc.

8. LAYOUT OF SCHOOL NUTRITION GARDEN

9. PRODUCTION CAPACITY OF NUTRIBED
NAME OF
VEGETABLE
CROP
LOCAL NAME SPACING
BETWEEN
ROWS
YIELD PER
NUTRIBED
(Kg/cycle)
Spinach Palak 12 inch 5.50 Kg
Fenugreek Methi 10 inch 7.0 Kg
Tomato Tomato 18 inch 11.84 Kg
Beets Beets 18 inch 7.20 Kg
Broccoli Cauliflower 18 inch 3.20 Kg
Cabbage PattaKobi 18 inch 8.64 Kg
Carrot Gajar 12 inch 13.20 Kg
Cucumber khira 18inch 14.56 Kg
Eggplant Bharta
Baingan
18 inch 4.0 Kg
Garlic lehsun 12 inch 2.88Kg
Mustard Sarso 12 inch 5.50 Kg
Okra Bhindi 18 inch 3.84 Kg
Onion green HaraPyaj 6 inch 7.0 Kg
Coriander haradhaniya 6 inch 4.48 Kg
Peas Mutter 12 inch 4.32 Kg