Commercialisation of agriculture under the British means that farmers

began to use tractors and combine harvesters on a large scaleCorrect answerYour answerformed cooperatives to sell their produce togetherCorrect answerYour answergrew crops for sale rather than for their own useCorrect answerYour answerreceived a guaranteed support price from the stateCorrect answerYour answer

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Indigo, cotton and jute were grown for the market, largely for British industry.
Yields of these crops rose in places, but the gains went to traders and British industry, not to the farmers.

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Commercialisation of agriculture under the British means that farmers

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