7. Solomy Leston poses in front of her tobacco drying racks with her young son. She and her husband made around $300 from their tobacco crop in the past year.
$2500 per crop per year which they borrow from tobacco company. The crops only yield 80-90% so each year they go deeper and deeper into debt with the tobacco company.
The average number of beedies a bonded child laborer rolls in a day is 1,500, for an average daily wage of nine rupees.