Question ID - 84163 | SaraNextGen Top Answer

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.                                                                         PASSAGE              Two hundred years after Malthus predicted that population growth would overtake food production by a margin of 256 to 9, the simple fact is that food production had always been ahead of the population growth. Malthus’ doomsday prediction simply did not come true due to two major reasons: first, population did not grow geometrically and birth rates in al Western countries fell during, the 20th Century, resulting in very slow population growth. Over the past quarter century, birth rates have been falling in the developing countries too. Second, modern agricultural practices and better irrigation have resulted in tremendous growth in food production in almost all parts of the globe, with the notable exception of sub-Saharam Africa. Therefore, at the global level, the Malthusian doomsday never befell of us.      India’s population grew by about two and a half times in the past 45 years-from 361 million in 1995. But during the same period, India’s food-grain production grew by nearly four times – from 51 million tones in 1995. As a result, the per capita food grain availability in India has gone up considerably since the independence. That is, the Malthusian prediction has not come true even in India.
In the developing countries, the birth rate is
(a)	increasing.	(b)	doubling.
(c)	falling.	(d)	static.
India’s food production from 1951 to 1995 grew nearly
(a)	five times.	(b)	four times.
(c)	three times.	(d)	two times.
The food production had always been _________ of population growth.
(a)	slow	(b)	ahead
(c)	adequate	(d)	stagnant
Malthus doomsday prediction did not come true due to two major reasons. They are
(a)	rapid growth in population and Industrial development.	(b)	very slow growth in population and modern agricultural practices and better irrigation.
(c)	increase in percapita income and economic progress.	(d)	better facilities in Health and Hygiene
In the past forty-five years, India’s population has grown about
(a)	three and a half times.	(b)	one and a half times.
(c)	five times.	(d)	two and a half times.