Note on the Marketing of Tinnevelly Cotton

The Tinnevelly ryot has learnt more in the past five years than he did in the previous fifty. He is beginning to realise that there is no longer any necessity for him to remain the dupe of the middleman. His main source of subsistence is cotton, and by market- ing his cotton direct to the purchasing firm he is realising that he may now reap profits which were hitherto the exclusive privilege and the happy hunting ground of the cotton dealer.