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Swapna, a small farmer in Kurnool (Andhra Pradesh) grows cotton on her small piece of land.Swapna does not have sufficient resources to grow cotton and, so, has to take a loan from the trader to grow her crop.Swapna's earning from cotton cultivation is barely more than what she might have earned as a wage labourer.They have to depend for loans (as in the case of Swapna, the small farmer), for raw materials and marketing of their goods (weavers in the putting out system), and most often for employment (workers at the garment factory).Next year, Swapna takes a fresh loan for cultivation.For example, moneylenders in the informal sector that you read about in Chapter 3 adopt various tricks to bind the borrower: they could make the producer sell the produce to them at a low rate in return for a timely loan; they could force a small farmer like Swapna to sell her land to pay back the loan.In this book, you have read about people like Kanta, the Ansaris, Melani and Swapna.At the beginning of the cropping season, Swapna had borrowed Rs 2,500 from the trader at a very high interest rate to buy seeds, fertilisers, pesticides for cultivation.Though Swapna knows that cotton will sell for at least Rs 1,800 per quintal, she doesn't argue further.At that time, the local trader made Swapna agree to another condition.Swapna, a small farmer, grows groundnut on her three acres of land.Once the cotton is collected, instead of selling it at Kurnool cotton market, Swapna and her husband take the harvest to the local trader.Whether it is Kanta or Swapna, if families don't earn enough how would they think of themselves as equal to others? On one hand, the market offers people opportunities for work and to be able to sell things that they grow or produce.Though Swapna sprays her crops with expensive pesticides, it makes little difference.The bolls of the cotton plant are ripe and some have already burst, so Swapna is busy picking cotton.