Basanti Rajbhor, a farmer in her 50s, hopes that this month, she would get hired by the big farmers from the neighbouring villages for the Kharif season.
She works for five to six farmers each year and has been doing so for almost three decades. She works in their fields, from sowing rice seeds to harvesting.
But this year, she has fewer hopes of getting hired.
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I am glad someone covered the dual problem that the state is facing. Sad to see that news channels are only reporting about covid numbers and the impact of lockdown on businesss