I believe the answer is: B.Helping farmers fight for better prices
At that time, the feeling of dissatisfaction started to grow among the farmers because they believe that they had been chated by the Merchants who only willing to give extremely low prices for their agricultural product.
They establish the farmer's alliance to collectively fight for better prices and eliminate supplies to the merchants that are not willing to re-negotiate a new term with them.
The GDP is NOT a good measure of the prosperity of the average person because the GDP does not consider the size of the population when calculated on a annual basis.
