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.
Saima Wazed brings disabled people from darkness to light: Hasan
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today said different programmes has been taken for the persons with
disabilities in the country by the prime minister’s worthwhile
daughter Saima Wazed.
are thinking of educating about their disabled children to make them
self-reliant. Now, they (disabled people) are getting allowances in
different sectors, getting rewards and they are coming from darkness
to light,” he said.
with Disability in Agriculture, Research Finding Dissemination and
Journalist Award’ at the auditorium of Krishibid Institution
Bangladesh (KIB) in the capital.
The Leprosy Mission, ICCO Cooperation, NORC and Bangladesh Krishak
League jointly organized the function.