, Oct. 15 -- President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said inadequate earnings from farming is the key reason for the growing difficulty in finding agricultural workers and stressed the need for taking steps to improve the profitability of the sector.

"Have you noticed that workers are becoming difficult to find? The reason is that the income people earn from agricultural work is not enough to sustain their livelihoods," said the President at an exchange of views meeting during his visit to the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) in Gazipur.

The President said the labour shortage in agriculture should not be considered merely a problem of finding workers. "The underlying economic factors that discourage people fro...