Child labour declines but still wages below legal minimum in seed production India
In view of 12 June, the World Day Against Child Labour, Arisa publishes a new report with a hopeful message.
Sandra11 June 2020
Seed companies show progress on tackling child labour, but fail to tackle non-payment of minimum wages in their supply chain
Report shows that seed companies, despite progress in the fight against child labour, have not yet addressed the problem adequately.
Sandra1 November 2018
Large-scale child labour at Bejo Sheetal – Nunhems close to child labour free
The Indian company Bejo Sheetal tolerates widespread child labour at the farmers who supply seeds to them. The farmers providing seeds to Nunhems India…
Sandra11 July 2013
156.000 Indian children produce vegetable seeds for companies
Many seed companies involved in child labour and below minimum wages of women in vegetable seed production in India.
Sandra24 November 2015
The price of less child labour and higher wages
Increasing the price that big seed companies in AP pay to farmers to grow cottonseed has resulted in much higher wages and less child…
Sandra6 June 2014
Almost half a million Indian children produce cottonseed
Almost half a million Indian children - around 200,000 of them below 14 years of age - are working to produce the cottonseed for…
Sandra27 July 2015
More than half a million child labourers in Indian seed production – Situation improved where government, NGOs and companies intervened
ICN reports "Seeds of Child Labour - Signs of Hope" and "Growing Up in the Danger Fields".
Sandra10 June 2010
Companies perpetuate child labour in India by low prices and flawed inspection
Report "The Price of Childhood - On the link between prices paid to farmers and the use of child labour in cottonseed production in…
Sandra26 October 2005
‘Child bondage continues in Indian cotton supply chain’
More than 400.000 children exploited in hybrid cottonseed production.
Sandra27 September 2007
