Answer:
In ryoti cultivation, Indian peasant farmers called ryots were often forced to grow the crop. British planters would persuade or compel a farmer to sign a contract to grow indigo on a certain portion of his land. The peasant farmers did not own their land. Instead, they rented it from the planters or from Indian landholders called zamindars. They had to grow indigo on 25% of the land. They were given loans by the planter. The seed and the drill were provided by the planter while the farmer had to till the soil, sow the seeds and then look after the crop.
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