Cultivator example sentences

Finally, the price the government paid to the cultivators for the opium they produced was very low.The plant was delicate, and cultivators had to spend long hours nurturing it.Nowadays ploughing is done by tractor driven cultivator.Stalin's government allowed some independent cultivation, but treated such cultivators unsympathetically.You learnt about shifting cultivators, pastoral groups and tribals.Gradually, local communities of fisherfolk and shifting cultivators, often tribals, merged with the new communities of peasants.The main tools used for this purpose are the plough, hoe and cultivator.In the empire, cultivators produced for the market as well as for their own needs and Russia was a major exporter of grain.How could the cultivators be persuaded to grow opium? For a variety of reasons, they were unwilling to turn their fields over to poppy.By taking the loan, the cultivator was forced to grow opium on a specified area of land and hand over the produce to the agents once the crop had been harvested.The Deputy Opium Agent of Allahabad wrote in 1833: 'The Board appears to think that the cultivators are not unwilling to cultivate.In regions around Benaras, cultivators began giving up opium cultivation.We should not however, think that the experiences of all peasants in colonial India were like those of the opium cultivators.How did Indian cultivators respond to their entry into the modern world of international commerce and trade? Let us look at the history of one crop – opium – to get an idea of what colonial rule meant to peasants, and how the market operated in the colonies.For two years past I have had constant communications with the cultivators in some of the districts south of the Jumna and state positively the people are discontented and dissatisfied almost to a man.