Engagement of rural women entrepreneurs in the growing handloom and cottage industry has been enhancing rural economy by cutting poverty through increasing production of quality products.
The opinion came at the inaugural ceremony of a three-day ‘Textile and Cottage Industries Fair-2017’ held on the ‘Unmukto Mancha’ premises in Nilphamari district town on Monday afternoon.
Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BWCCI) has been
organized the fair under the Rural Women Entrepreneurs Skill Development Training Programme with assistance of the Department of Women Affairs under the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs.
Rural women entrepreneurs have set up 20 stalls displaying handicraft and handloom garment products produced in their cottage industries, handloom garment factories and small-scale enterprises at the fair.
The main objective of arranging the fair is to exhibit and create
opportunity for selling of the products being produced by the rural women entrepreneurs and creating their linkage with traders and market operators.
Additional Deputy Commissioner (General) of Nilphamari AJM Ershad Ahsan Habib inaugurated the fair at a colourful ceremony as the chief guest with Nilphamari Pourasabha Mayor Dewan Kamal Ahmed in the chair.
Programme officer of BWCCI Sumanta Kumar Mohanato, District Women Affairs Officer Nurun Nahar Shahajadi, representative of Nilphamari Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry Ummey Kulsum Munni and women entrepreneur Shakila Akhter, addressed.
The speakers said the rural women entrepreneurs have been playing a vital role in creating job opportunities for the local unemployed female workforce to improve livelihoods and accelerate national development.
The chief guest said the fair would help exploring the brighter prospect of rural women entrepreneurship and called upon the rural female entrepreneurs for availing assistance being provided by the government departments, banks and other financial institutions.
Dewan Kamal Ahmed highly appreciated BWCCI for arranging the fair to introduce the locally produced handloom garments, handcrafts and other products for expanding trade, business and commerce to flourishentrepreneurship of rural women, reports BSS, Rangpur.
