Migrant child labour at Attur pegged at 38,000; officials say agriculture not under Child Labour Act Salem G Rajasekaran AGRARIAN crisis may have forced farmers to switch over to Bt cotton much against the warnings of environmentalists but not without unacceptable fallouts. For 10 months after UNICEF brought out the prevalence of migrant child labour in Bt cotton fields with Attur taluk in Salem getting notorious along with Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Karnataka, a current survey indicates that at least 13 per cent of the total labour in the cotton fields are children, particularly tribal girl children, with serious compromises being made on their right to education and health. Assertions and denials flew between UNICEF officials and the district administration at the one-day consultation on