CBSE Class 9 Answered

 Problems which were faced by opium cultivators in India were

1. Opium could be grown only on fertile lands which meant that instead of growing food crops such as wheat and pulses, the farmers had to grow opium. The cultivation of food crops was then shifted to lands of inferior quality which yielded in low and poor harvests.

2. The British paid very low prices for opium to the farmers. Because the British government established its monopoly over opium trade in many regions, the farmers had to sell opium to them at extremely low prices fixed by the government.