
Sugar cane workers in Maharashtra, western India, in 2023. An investigation by The New York Times and The Fuller Project this year revealed a brutal, endemic labor system there.

Sugar cane workers in Maharashtra, western India, in 2023. An investigation by The New York Times and The Fuller Project this year revealed a brutal, endemic labor system there.

Loading sugar cane to transport it to mills in the Satara district of Indiaβs Maharashtra State in March last year. Laborers often work in couples, paid through contractors.