Why is child labour preferred in Bt cotton farms?
• Children with nimble and small fingers are more suited to pollinate male and female Bt cotton flowers. The children first scour the field identifying and tagging all female cotton flowers. Plucked male cotton flowers are then used to pollinate them.
• Child labour is cheap compared to adults who demand more money to do the tedious job of locating male and female cotton flowers and the delicate task of pollinating them
• Children from Rajasthan don’t demand holidays until the season is over and they return home
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