The ryots became reluctant to grow indigo for a number of reasons such as
→ Indigo could be cultivated only on fertile lands, but the peasants preferred to cultivate rice there. Indigo plant had deep roots and exhausted the soil rapidly and after an indigo harvest, the land could not be useful for rice cultivation.
→ Peasants who were initially tempted by the loans given by the planters, soon realised that the system was very harsh. The price they got for the indigo they produced was very low and cycles of loans never ended. They were trapped in a cycle of loan