Question

why Indians are reluctant to produce opinion in 1780s ?

Answer 1

The Indians were reluctant to produce opium because of the following reasons :-

1) Farmers got very low prices for cultivating opium.

2)They earned no profit by cultivating opium.

2)They had to spend a lot of time in cultivating and nurturing opium plant.This is because opium is a plant which requires lot of nurturing.

3)As a result they were not able to take good care of their crops.

4)Also , the cultivation was to be done only on the best fields. But on these fields , the farmers grew their pulses

5)Most of the farmers were poor.As a result , they had to rent land to cultivate opium

Answer 2

1. opium was the crop which was grown on most fertile land which farmer used to grow pulse .
2. most cultivators were landless & they were dependent on other land lord.
3. cost charge on good fertile land were very high
4. process to grow opium was very difficult.
5. farmers had to spent too many times in nurturing the plant opium.
6. the price given to farmer were very low for opium by Britishers.

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