Social Attitudes towards Kitchen Gardening

Abstract

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