Agriculture and Health of Tribal Women in A Rural, Forestry, Hilly Region with Extremely Low Resources.

Abstract Background Good nutrition affects individuals, communities, national development. It is imperative that right food is available, and is consumed. Dietary diversity must ensure adequacy of requirements for optimal physical, mental health. Not much is known about villagers having land, crops grown, women’s health.


Background
Good nutrition with direct effects on health, is crucial fundamental driver of wide range of developmental goals of individuals, communities and nations. For positive impact of nutrition on health, it is essential that right food is available and people take right food.
However, providing a growing global population with sustainable healthy diet is a challenge. Though global food production was in pace with population growth, more than 820 million people have insufficient food and many consume low-quality food which lead to various nutritional deficiencies [1]. Raphael [2] opined that unhealthy diets pose a great risk to morbidity and mortality because a lot of the world's population is inadequately nourished and many environmental systems and processes are pushed beyond safe boundaries. Shrinivas et al [3] reported that due to lack of right diet, 28% women of reproductive age had anaemia. Lotfi et al [4] reported that a large proportion of the population continues to consume essentially, a cereal based diet fortified with various chemicals with some sort of micronutrient sufficiency.
Women and children are the worst sufferers in most of the situations of diversities. Women of reproductive age are at higher risk. For rural women's health it is essential to know whether they own land, whether they grow crops, what they grow, how they store what they use and how is their general health.

Objective
Present study was done to know about land with rural families, crop grown, food consumed, especially by rural tribal women and their health with mission of trying feasible and effective interventions for positive change.

Material and Methods
Present study was done after approval of ethics committee of the institute in rural tribal communities  Targeted agricultural guidance to rural communities has been reported to help in quality nutrition [12] Bose [13] reported that anaemia accounted for at least 20% of maternal mortality. In the present study more than 90% tribal nonpregnant women of child bearing age were anaemic, 20% had severe anaemia and 7% had very severe anaemia. Information about everyday food did reveal the obvious reasons. A study was carried out in Abbottabad and the results showed that the most common type of anemia was iron deficiency anemia that affected 68% people and was more common in women [14]. Present findings revealed that most women would not have become anaemic if they had enough iron intake. Good sources of iron, fruits, vegetables, whole grains, milk meat, fish, dry beans, egg, nuts have become too expensive for rural women.
In the multivariate analysis, vitamin A insufficiency, socioeconomic status, and age were significantly associated with anemia [15]. Agricultural programs complement global efforts to stimulate productivity and thus increase income generation too which is very essential in the era of high food prices. In addition, they help families in quality nutrition [16]. However, some researchers have reported that evidence of effects on nutrition outcomes, in relation to homebased food production programme was inconclusive, All this would require higher investments, but more than that an alternative vision that looks to support all peoples to feed themselves well and enough.