Challenges faced by indigo farmers in india
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1. The price they got for the Indigo they produced was very low and the cycle of loans never ended.
2. The planters usually insisted that indigo should be cultivated on the best soils in which the peasants/farmers preferred to cultivate rice.
3. Indigo had deep roots which exausted the soil rapidly. After an indigo harvest the land could not be sown with rice.
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indigo planters forced the ryots (cultivators), and sometimes even influenced the village headmen on behalf of the ryots, to sign a contract, an agreement called satta, in which those who signed got cash advances at low rates of interest to cultivate indigo on their fields. The seed and the drill were provided by the planters, and the cultivators had to prepare the soil, sow the seeds, and look after the crop.
a new loan was given to the ryot, and the cycle started all over again. Peasants who were initially tempted by the loans soon realised how harsh the system was; the price they got for the indigo they produced was very low and the cycle of loans never ended.
her problems too. The planters usually insisted that indigo be cultivated on the best soils in which peasants preferred to cultivate their main food grain, rice. Indigo, moreover, had deep roots. So it exhausted the soil rapidly and the land could not be sown with rice soon after an indigo harvest.
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