IVANIC GRAD, Oct 15 (Hina) - On occasion of World Rural Woman's Day, Croatian parliamentary president Zlatko Tomcic on Tuesday went to the village of Zaklepica near Zagreb to visit Marija Prodan, a woman who lives off growing flax and
manufacturing flax towels for the London market.
IVANIC GRAD, Oct 15 (Hina) - On occasion of World Rural Woman's Day,
Croatian parliamentary president Zlatko Tomcic on Tuesday went to
the village of Zaklepica near Zagreb to visit Marija Prodan, a woman
who lives off growing flax and manufacturing flax towels for the
London market. #L#
World Rural Woman's Day has been celebrated since 1995.
Rural women make up for one quarter of the global population and 37
percent of the agricultural labour force in the European Union.
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