To observe the day at the national level, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Ministry of Agriculture and International Labour Organisation (ILO), Dhaka office, will jointly organise a national seminar on "Child Labour in Agriculture" at a local hotel at 9:30am on the day.

Secretary of the Ministry of Labour and Employment Ashfaque Hamid will be the chief guest and Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture Dr Syed Naquib Muslim will chair the seminar, an ILO press release said yesterday.

ILO and the other UN partner organisation, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), have identified agriculture as one of the three most dangerous sectors, along with mining and construction, in which children work in hazards and risks, it said.

As agro-economy is growing fast in the world, the press release said, the number of child labour has also been increasing alarmingly.

According to the ILO statistics, every year 22,000 children die, 270 million children face different kinds of accidents and 160 million receive health related injuries around the globe.