Centre for Peace and Justice (CPJ), BRAC University, in collaboration with ActionAid Bangladesh, organised a Research Findings Dissemination event on Legal and Regulatory Framework Affecting the Enabling Environment for Grassroots Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) on Monday, 30 October 2023 in Dhaka.
86 percent people with disabilities directly involved in agriculture: Study
UNB
19th December, 2020 05:52:25
A total of 86 percent people with physical and leprosy disabilities in Bangladesh are directly involved in agriculture while income of 88 percent of farmers with disabilities has been reduced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The information was revealed in the ‘Research Findings Dissemination and Journalist Award Giving Ceremony’ at Krishibid Institution Bangladesh (KIB) Complex auditorium in the city on Saturday organized by The Leprosy Mission International-Bangladesh and supported by Bangladesh Krishak League, ICCO-Cooperation and NOREC.
Two studies titled ‘The Role of People with Disabilities in Agriculture’ and ‘COVID-19 Impacts on the Lives & Livelihoods of People with Disabilities’ were conducted in between September and December 2020.
Research Findings
A total of 210 physically challenged people in 32 upazilas under 16 districts of Bangladesh attended face to face interviews as key respondents in the study.
Of them 42 percent were found as the main wage-earning members of the family.
According to the study findings, 62% of persons with disabilities are involved in poultry farming, 52% in livestock rearing, 36% in vegetables farming while 37% in cultivation.
The study conducted by TLMI-B also reveals that only 12.86% farmers with disabilities are government-recognised farmers while the rest of 87.14% farmers with disabilities are deprived of the government services in agriculture sector.
Besides, only 4% of the farmers with disabilities are associated with the agriculture-based committees at union, upazila and district levels and the remaining 98% are not associated with any committee.