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Cotton farming is 'child's play' in Telangana with large number of children working in fields

-The New Indian Express

The project is aimed at studying the cotton farming sector in the State in collaboration with the Labour Department of Telangana and suggest interventions.

HYDERABAD:
The cotton farming industry in Telangana has reportedly been employing thousands of children and adolescents as unpaid and invisible labour. They are not only dropping out of school but are also exposed to hazardous pesticides, said officials of the International Labour Organisation, who were in the city to launch a four-year-long project.

The project is aimed at studying the cotton farming sector in the State in collaboration with the Labour Department of Telangana and suggest interventions. The first-of-its-kind study will be conducted in the districts of Gadwal, Adilabad, Warangal and Nalgonda, where cotton is the main crop.

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