#Out in the countryside, a large, poor body of cash-crop farmers—a group that formed often powerful farmers' associations to seek better prices for their products, especially cocoa. Many were heavily in debt to local moneylenders. | #Out in the countryside, a large, poor body of cash-crop farmers—a group that formed often powerful farmers' associations to seek better prices for their products, especially cocoa. Many were heavily in debt to local moneylenders. |