Pandemic induced labour scarcity increases demand for sugarcane harvesting machines in South India

Maharashtra, the country’s second-largest sugar producing state, employs close to 1 million migrant labours every year to help in sugarcane harvesting. Neighbouring Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, too, engage thousands of such workers in their sugarcane fields.

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