Promotion of orange flesh sweet potato and other Vegetables for Improving Nutrition in Aquaculture-Agriculture systems

1. Improving nutrition through
Homestead Vegetable Cultivation
Promotion of OFSP and other Vegetables for Improving
Nutrition in Aquaculture-Agriculture Systems

2. Improve nutritional status of
women and children
Involving with SPRING activities
FFS member, October 2012
 FFS Session
 Agriculture extension inputs (seeds,
poultry shed)

3. FFS Session
• Cultivation
methods,
intercultural
management, and
post harvest
• Importance of
vegetables in
nutrition aspect

4. Before SPRING
Beauty Begum lives in Baro baliadangi village under Noapara union in Jessore district.
Beauty’s husband, Abdul hai, works as a carpenter (seasonally) and cultivate different
vegetables in his cultivable land which has not yet distributed among his four brothers
and two sisters by his father. So he has to depend on his father’s property. The couple
has two children, aged seven yrs and 18 months.
Her husband mostly involve with cultivation of cereal crops. She has to depends on her
husband for vegetables from market. Health and nutritious status of her family was not
good. Her family’s monthly income was about taka 3,900 (about US$48.75). Her 18
months boy was sick very frequently. It was quite tough for her to manage all the
expenses of her family.

5. After involving with SPRING
Through FFS session Beauty has learned to grow diverse, nutritious vegetables as well as
implement practices such as handwashing and improved child feeding to increase health
and nutrition.
Following an initial training, SPRING provided Beauty five types of seeds, including leafy
green vegetables, pumpkin and root vegetables, to develop a household garden. She
began harvesting different leafy vegetables like spinach, red amaranth, kangkong in late
October’12, noting, “I do not have to use scarce household funds to purchase vegetables
any longer. I have learned how to prepare the land with pits and beds and sow seeds for
a better harvest. Now, I can cook nutritious food for my family.”
Now she can save her money for her school going son. And this savings money was used
to buy vegetables from the market which was amount about taka 500.00 (about US$
6.00)

6. Two column slide
Through cultivating diversified
vegetables Beauty fill up her
family nutritious need of her
family

7. Beauty Begum, at her homestead vegetable
garden
Boro baliadanga FFS, Jessore sadar

8. Boro baliadangi FFS, Jessore sdar
Beauty Begum, at her homestead vegetable
garden

9. Thank you from
beneficiary

10. Thank you from
beneficiary