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Acute shortage of labour to extend Maharashtra's sugar season -Parthasarathi Biswas

-The Indian Express

The start of the sugarcane season in Maharashtra is marked by the seasonal migration of around 7-8 lakh labourers from Marathwada and North Maharashtra to the mills in various parts of the state.

Pune:
Maharashtra’s sugarcane crushing is all set to extend by at least a fortnight as mills complain of acute shortage of harvesting labourers. Mills say that at present around 15-20 per cent less labourers have turned up for duty this season.

The start of the sugarcane season in Maharashtra is marked by the seasonal migration of around 7-8 lakh labourers from Marathwada and North Maharashtra to the mills in various parts of the state. These labourers are employed by mills through their contractors. While mechanised harvesters are also employed to harvest cane, they harvest less than 1 per cent of the total cane in the state. These labourers are land holders themselves and migrate once they finish sowing of rabi crops like chana, wheat etc in their fields. Given the moisture stress often associated with these area, these farmers take up migratory work to supplement their income.

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