Vol. 10, Special Issue 10 (2021)

Author(s):
Sreelakshmi C and Allan Thomas

Abstract:
Home gardens are the primitive forms of agriculture and with the current issues of rising population, lack of resources and food crisis, they can ensure people with better livelihoods. Home gardens can accomplish sustainability in terms of appropriate technology need analyzis and proper interventions with specialized components. The study was conducted in the Thiruvananthapuram district comprising five agro ecological units with sixty specialized homegarden systems The need for value addition technologies (1.93) were more when compared to production (2.58) and protection (2.23) in dominant crops. Similarly in animal husbandry components, technologies related to goat (2.00) were unavailable when compared to cow (2.67) and poultry (2.50).