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Current Research in Agriculture and Farming (CRAF)
Year : 2021, Volume : 2, Issue : 4
First page : (46) Last page : (52)
Article doi: : http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2582-7146.152
Home Garden and Women Participation: A Mini Review
Ahasan Ullah Khan1,2* 
, Israt Jahan Ema3, Ayesha Shiddika Afsana4 and Anayat Ullah Khan5
1Climate-Smart Agriculture Lab, Department of Agroforestry and Environmental Science,
2Department of Entomology, 3Department of Plant Pathology and Seed Science,
Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet 3100, Bangladesh,
3Department of Poultry Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh,
4Department of Mathematics, Jashore University of Science and Technology, Jashore-7408, Bangladesh
*Corresponding Author E-mail: ahasanullahsau@gmail.com
Received: 12.06.2021 | Revised: 26.07.2021 | Accepted: 7.08.2021
ABSTRACT
Home gardens aid to improve food availability, ecology, job opportunities, social conditions for outstanding production, contributing to the conservation of diversity and maintenance of plant genetic resources and ecosystem. The objective of this review is to know about the major crops, vegetables, fruits, medicinal plants, and cash plants materials and women's participation in home garden agroforestry practices in Bangladesh. The various species of home gardens are nutritionally and economically valued as they fulfill a demand. Women are more engaged than men in home garden activities. Common vegetables, fruits contain significant amounts of protein, sugars, salts, calcium, iron, vitamins, minerals, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, potassium, calcium, zinc, magnesium, and iron. The common medicinal plants are using plant parts such as fruit, leaf, bark as treatment of dysentery, cough, fever, and other diseases. The flower plants improve beautification in the home and also contain the aesthetic value. The profit plant helped in the economic sector. The responsible bodies should undertake positive actions like promoting specific study plans in the home garden to ensure biological balance to improve the capacity of women communities to manage and maintain home garden diversity.
Keywords: Home garden, women, vegetable, fruit, medicinal plants, animal.
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Cite this article: Khan, A. U., Ema, I. J., Afsana, A. S., & Khan, A. U. (2021). Home Garden and Women Participation: A Mini Review, Curr. Rese. Agri. Far. 2(4), 46-52. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2582-7146.152