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Gujarat’s Killing Cane Fields for Women: It’s All Work, no Rest in Dang district -Damyantee Dhar

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Story of the tribal women of South Gujarat who form nearly half the workforce of 2.5 lakh sugarcane workers yet are the worst exploited in the sugar industry

Manisha Sunilbhai Shinde, a tribal sugarcane worker of Jarsol village in Dang, Gujarat, is a mother of one at the age of 20. Married to a sugarcane labourer at the age of 15, she went from working in her parent’s koyta unit to pairing up with her husband as a koyta.

Manisha has been migrating to the sugarcane fields every year for fifteen years now. Her life remained the same when she had learnt that she was pregnant as she continued to accompany her husband through her pregnancy, working for 14 to 15 hours cutting, cleaning and loading sugarcane until she began losing weight while carrying the child.

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