Question ID - 44456 | SaraNextGen Top Answer

Below are given two passage followed by several possible inferences which can be drawn from the facts stated in the passages. You have to examine each inference separately in the context of each passage and decide upon its degree of truth or falsity.

      (a) If the inference is “definitely true” i.e. it properly follows from the statement of facts given.

      (b) If the inference is “probably true” though not “definitely true” in the light of the facts given.

      (c) if the data are inadequate i.e. from the facts given, you cannot say whether the inference is likely to be true or false.

      (d) if the inference is “probably false” though not “definitely false” in the light of the facts given.

      (e) If the inference is “definitely false” i.e. it cannot possibly be drawn from the facts given or it contradicts the given facts.

     Passage-I: The immediate challenge is on the food front. Shortfalls in production have been allowed to affect supplies and hence prices. The government is planning to focus on investment in irrigation and even revival of agricultural extension system what is probably needed is fresh dose of green revolution strategy. It appears that the Green Revolution instruments to encourage farmers to invest are no longer effective. The Green Revolution strategy was based on the state taking out the risk of collapse in prices. Farmers were offered remunerative prices and a guaranteed procurement of their produce in case the open market could not absorb it. Farmers could then borrow from banks, acquire the Green Revolution Technology and produce as much as they could. The pressure on the food subsidy was manageable as long as there was a food shortage. Prices in the open market then tended to be above the procurement prices. But with the food surpluses the situation has changed. The situation was unsustainable not merely because of the magnitude of this subsidy. It was also inefficient. If meant farmers were being led to produce or stops based just on the prices Government fixed and not in relation to any real demand. In these circumstances, the Government was reluctant to keep increasing procurement at the place that used to be the norm in earlier years.

As the open market prices are lower, all the burden of procurement of crops is on the Government.