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This study evaluated the effects of nutrition education program alone and in combination with homestead food production (HFP) inputs on nutritional status in selected rural secondary school students of Kishoreganj district. In this interventional study, 1214 students were placed into study group 1 (406), study group 2 (400) and control group (408). The study group 1 participated in nutrition education program whereas the study group 2 got HFP inputs along with nutrition education. Sociodemographic informations were collected at baseline of the study KAP related information, food security related information, anthropometric data, blood samples, school performance related information and dietary data (24 hour dietary recall along with seven days’ food frequency) were collected at baseline and after six months of follow up respectively. The data were analyzed by paired t-tests. ANOVA test was also done to see the …