WELCOME

COMMERCIALIZATION

OF AGRICULTURE

PRESENTED BY

SOUMYA.R

In pre British period Indian cultivators

produced items for daily use and some luxury

items such as silk

After Industrial Revolution, the peasants

were compelled to produce raw materials like

cotton and silk necessary for industrial

production.

The British encouraged production

aimed for the market.

Commercialization of agriculture

resulted in the emergence of

intermediaries, who collected

products from the farmers & sold them

in the market.

The cultivators were compelled to

exchange their products at price much lower

than the market.

The decline of indigenous production

brought about the entry of foreign goods .

India became the market place for foreign

goods

PEASANTS TOWARDS POVERTY

Climate change and natural calamities

adversely affected the agricultural

production.

The farmers were forced to pay taxes

even when there was no production.

Company also introduced several taxes on

essential commodities like salt, oil, kerosene.

The craftsmen and weavers who lost their jobs as

a result of the British policies sought and gained

work in a newly formed plantations.

The gap b/w income and liabilities of the

peasantry and laboring classes increased day by day.

They were transformed into

debtors.

Even their homesteads were

given to the money lenders in

order to avoid debt burden

CONCLUSION

commercialization of agriculture resulted in the decline of conventional agricultural production and the policies adopted by the British also pulled down the poor peasants into the pool of miseries.

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