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2009-08-31 | permalink
Life is cheap in the killing BT cotton fields of Gujarat (India)
It was on the night of August 17 that Punjilal Ahuri received the body of his 16-year-old daughter, Haju Ben. She had apparently died of snake bite while working in the BT cotton fields of Gujarat. [...] There are large BT cotton farms in Banaskantha district of Gujarat. And when cross-pollination work begins in the end of July, a large number of children from Rajasthan’s Udaipur and Dungarpur are taken there, often by coercion or deception, as the local people allege.
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2009-08-31 | permalink
Life is cheap in the killing BT cotton fields of Gujarat (India)
It was on the night of August 17 that Punjilal Ahuri received the body of his 16-year-old daughter, Haju Ben. She had apparently died of snake bite while working in the BT cotton fields of Gujarat. [...] There are large BT cotton farms in Banaskantha district of Gujarat. And when cross-pollination work begins in the end of July, a large number of children from Rajasthan’s Udaipur and Dungarpur are taken there, often by coercion or deception, as the local people allege.
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