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Assertion (A): Indigo plantations came up in many parts of North and South America by the seventeenth centuryReasoning (R): The high demand and competition from Indian indigo led to European producers to pressurise their governments to ban the import of indigo and look for alternatives.Choose the correct option.
India is a tropical country and indigo grows well in tropical regions. In the 13th century, Indian indigo was used by cloth manufacturers from France, Italy, and Britain. Important Pointsindigo was very expensive, so the European cloth manufacturers were dependent on another plant called woad. Due to fear of competition from indigo, woad producers demanded a ban on the import of indigo. the government looks for various alternatives for indigo and this increases the growth in plantation of indigo in various parts of north and south America. Hence, Due to high competition and demand for Indian indigo, Europeans ban the import of indigo and it resulted in the growth of the indigo plantation in north and south America.
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