The correct answer is true.
It is true that Sharecropping didn't work for the farmer because sharecroppers were almost always in debt to the landowner.
During the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War, sharecropping represented an option for former slaves to rent portions of land, work and grow cash crops that had to be given to the landowner. Farmers kept a portion of the crops. It represented a form of independence for farmers but in reality, this was not the case. Under the sharecropping system, most farmers were almost always in debt to the landowner.