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Nil cultivation: In nil cultivation, the British planter either bought land or took it on rent. Then, he hired labour to work on the land and grow indigo. However, this system was not without problems. · The planters needed large, compact blocks of land. Only small plots could be acquired that were fertile. · The planters needed plots near the Indigo factories. It was difficult to, evict people living near the factories and often led to conflict. ? It was difficult to secure the large amounts of labour. Mostly farmers were busy planting rice at the same time of the year. ? Large investment was required in bullocks and ploughs. For a hundred bigha farm, 200 ploughs were required. It was difficult to secure and maintain so many. They could not get these from farmers who required them for the rice fields. So, nil cultivation was practiced only on 25%of the total land under Indigo Cultivation.
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