Social Attitudes towards Kitchen Gardening

Authors

  • Bushra Rehman National Agriculture Research Center, Islamabad- Pakistan
  • Mehreen Faiza International Islamic University -Pakistan.
  • Tabinda Qaiser National Agriculture Research Center, Islamabad- Pakistan
  • M. Azeem Khan, Dr. National Agriculture Research Center, Islamabad- Pakistan
  • Akhtar Ali, Dr. National Agriculture Research Center, Islamabad- Pakistan
  • Saima Rani National Agriculture Research Center, Islamabad- Pakistan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25255/jss.2013.2.1.27.34

Keywords:

Attitude, kitchen gardening, urbanization

Abstract

With the increase in population and the increasing trend of urbanizations leads towards a serious
issue of food security and mal-nutrition. To cover come the mal nutrition in the household the
concept of kitchen gardning was introduced over the centuries. Now this concept is very well
know and taking success in developed and developing countries. So this study was designed to
analyse the attitude of people towards kitchen gardning. For this purpose study was conducted on
among 30 house holds in three different colonies of Islamabad. Rawal Town, Margalla Town, and
Terlai. Results depict that 90% of the people practices the activity of kitchen gardening at their
home and use their production for home consumption.

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Author Biographies

Bushra Rehman, National Agriculture Research Center, Islamabad- Pakistan

Assistant Scientific Officer, Social Sciences Research Institute, National Agriculture Research Center,
Islamabad- Pakistan.

Mehreen Faiza, International Islamic University -Pakistan.

Student of Bs (hons.) Sociology, International Islamic University -Pakistan.

Tabinda Qaiser, National Agriculture Research Center, Islamabad- Pakistan

Assistant Scientific Officer, Social Sciences Research Institute, National Agriculture Research Center,
Islamabad- Pakistan

M. Azeem Khan, Dr., National Agriculture Research Center, Islamabad- Pakistan

Senior. Director/Chief Scientific Officer, Social Sciences Research Institute, National Agriculture Research
Center, Islamabad- Pakistan

Akhtar Ali, Dr., National Agriculture Research Center, Islamabad- Pakistan

Senior Scientific Officer, Social Sciences Research Institute, National Agriculture Research Center,
Islamabad- Pakistan

Saima Rani, National Agriculture Research Center, Islamabad- Pakistan

Scientific Officer, Social Sciences Research Institute, National Agriculture Research Center, Islamabad-
Pakistan

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Published

2018-01-01

How to Cite

Rehman, B., Faiza, M., Qaiser, T., Khan, M. A., Ali, A., & Rani, S. (2018). Social Attitudes towards Kitchen Gardening. Journal of Social Sciences (COES&Amp;RJ-JSS), 2(1), 27–34. https://doi.org/10.25255/jss.2013.2.1.27.34