Staff Reporter Rangpur :
Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) Mayor Md. Mostafizur Rahman said, Bangladesh has surged ahead economically. We strongly hope to become a middle-income country by 2024. Our growth is highest in South Asia but haved to face many challenges. Despite the poverty reduction a large section of the population are still poor. Good employment opportunities are going slowly. Nutrition is another big obstacle.
On the one hand there is our lack of awareness about nutrition and on the other hand there is lack of diet and variety in food. In Bangladesh, two out of every five children are malnourished. Among the poor, the rate is double, meaning that four out of every five people are malnourished and underweight. 14% of children under five years of age are thin. Severe acute malnutrition rate 3.1% Breastfeeding rate for infants under six months is only 55%. One-fourth of Bangladesh’s adolescent girls are malnourished.
One in eight women of reproductive age is short. Rangpur City Corporation Mayor Md Mostafizur Rahman, who was the chief guest at the workshop, said this while addressing a function at RDRS Begum Rokeya Auditorium on Tuesday afternoon.
In collaboration with the Swiss Agency for Development (SDC), the Syngenta Foundation has initiated a project called Nutrition in Secondary Cities in Rangpur and Dinajpur.
Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) Mayor Md. Mostafizur Rahman said, Bangladesh has surged ahead economically. We strongly hope to become a middle-income country by 2024. Our growth is highest in South Asia but haved to face many challenges. Despite the poverty reduction a large section of the population are still poor. Good employment opportunities are going slowly. Nutrition is another big obstacle.
On the one hand there is our lack of awareness about nutrition and on the other hand there is lack of diet and variety in food. In Bangladesh, two out of every five children are malnourished. Among the poor, the rate is double, meaning that four out of every five people are malnourished and underweight. 14% of children under five years of age are thin. Severe acute malnutrition rate 3.1% Breastfeeding rate for infants under six months is only 55%. One-fourth of Bangladesh’s adolescent girls are malnourished.
One in eight women of reproductive age is short. Rangpur City Corporation Mayor Md Mostafizur Rahman, who was the chief guest at the workshop, said this while addressing a function at RDRS Begum Rokeya Auditorium on Tuesday afternoon.
In collaboration with the Swiss Agency for Development (SDC), the Syngenta Foundation has initiated a project called Nutrition in Secondary Cities in Rangpur and Dinajpur.
