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Why do many agricultural workers leave Chhattisgarh between January and June?
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Chitrakot Waterfall on the Indravati River, near Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh, India.
Many agricultural workers leave Chhattisgarh between January and June because farming activities in the state come to a virtual halt during this period.1
As the state is predominantly agricultural, this seasonal inactivity forces a mass migration of workers to other regions—including Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Delhi, and Himachal Pradesh—to seek opportunities for daily wage labor.1