Indian Farm Workers Are Being Replaced by Drones. They Fear a Much Darker Future.

He isn't satisfied: This is the only work he's gotten in the past two weeks. Sharma is from Bihar, one of India's poorest states. But he's earned a decent living as a migrant agricultural laborer since moving to the northern state of Haryana 12 years ago. Haryana's agricultural sector relies on hundreds of thousands of Bihari laborers, and in the small village of Ghuskani, where Sharma lives, more than 87 migrant laborers work in fields, clean cattle sheds, and perform factory jobs. Sharma has sprayed insecticides on practically every farm in the village over the past 12 years.