Read the passage carefully and answer the questions given below. Many poor farmers had been compelled to take up indigo cultivation when the Brit settlers were given the right to purchase and cultivate land in Indis. Many whites, therefore, ein sequired land or advanced inans to poor farmers and premurised them to forsake the farming food grains and other cash erups for indigo cultivation Indigo export to Europe was lucrative the British settlers who held a manopoly of this business Within a few years, most of the fes lanin bad undergone forcible indigo cultivation, resulting in a famine situation in Bengal. V the farmers declined to cultivate indigs, they were tortured, jailed and even killed.
Indigo export was profitable for the settlers because (a) they had no competitors (b) the crop yield was good (c) they could oppress the farmers (d) the labour was cheap

Options

A. they had no competitors
B. the crop yield was good
C. they could oppress the farmers
D. the labour was cheap