Vol. 11, Special Issue 3 (2022)

Author(s):
Sabyasachi Pradhan, NK Khare, PK Singh and Kamini Bisht

Abstract:
Agriculture is nutrition-sensitive when it goes beyond food production to address underlying causes of malnutrition. Keeping in this mind the present study the present study was conducted in two blocks namely Komna and Sinapali blocks of Nuapada district in Odisha. An Ex-post facto research design was employed for this study. A sample of 197 respondents was selected by using proportionate random sampling from ten villages from each block and interviewed using a pre-tested interview schedule to study the information-seeking behavior of the farm households regarding Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture (NSA). It was found that a higher percentage of the respondents (42.64%) were having a low level of information seeking behavior, followed by 41.12 per cent were having medium and only 16.24 per cent were having a high level of information-seeking behaviour.