These middlemen entrepreneurs are also innovators who introduce new cash crops to farmers whenever they see a market opportunity to trade on such crops.
Relationships between farmers and middlemen trades are ambivalent. Many traders are at the same time moneylenders. A number of farmers are indebted to middlemen traders. Debts are paid in kinds after harvesting. Interest rate can be exorbitant. Rural indebtedness has long been a main problem for farmers in rural ares.