Homestead gardening is an ancient practice to the farm families of Bangladesh, where the women used to grow vegetables or fruits using their own seeds. The quantity of the production as well as its contribution to family nutrition varied largely from farmer to farmer depending on the availability of land areas as well as land type. Rural farmers have little access to information and advisory services for decision making in real time. Creating an innovation platform by linking the different actors of production system including farmers, extension personnel, researcher, input dealers etc. through a simplified mobile app in local language will help farmers in decision making in real time for sustainable agriculture with improved nutrition security.
Dr. Md. Kamrul Islam