Farmers deaths and illnesses caused by pesticides in Indian state

Hundreds of farmers in the state of Maharashtra in western India have been hospitalised, while several have died, because of exposure to harmful pesticides.

The deaths have occurred in a cotton-growing region.

 

Our India correspondent Rebecca Bundhun reports

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