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Researcher: Khandakar Rafiqul Islam
Lack of adequate employment and earning opportunities
are some of the major factors contributing to poverty
in Bangladesh. Many occupational groups have meagre
earnings for their livelihood in spite of their skill
in their respective traditional occupations. One such
occupational group is the carpenters in Bangladesh.
This occupational group still uses traditional tools
with which they work very hard only to get a poor income
in return. A research as such was felt necessary to
develop a multipurpose cost-effective modern wood-planner
adaptable in the country context and affordable and
accessible by the poor carpenters for increased output
and efficiency. The research would facilitate, in direct
participation of the carpenters, the appropriate technology
applications for the design and development of a need-based
and affordable multipurpose wood planner and transfer
of such technology to formed cooperatives of poor carpenters.
This newly designed wood planner would be displayed
to the poor carpenters to demonstrate its use-effectiveness
in order to encourage collective or cooperative purchase
and use of the wood planners for increased income earning.
The research would also identify strategies to assist
interested carpenters with organizational linkages to
get support for development of small industrial units
on cooperative basis.
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