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Andhra's cotton farms a trap for girl child [1]

The superstition that girls who attain puberty do not augur well for crops is making farmers employ a large number of minor girls as agricultural labour in the cotton seed farms of the backward

Publication Date: 
24/12/1997
Indian Express (New Delhi) [2]
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Agriculture [3]
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