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Evaluating assumptions about farming technique adaptation and infrastructure

Reading Comp.Agriculture / Technology passageStatement-basedMedium

Question

Based on the above passage, the following assumptions have been made:

1Poor countries need to bring about change in their existing farming techniques.
2Developed countries have better infrastructure and they waste less food.

Which of the above assumptions is/are valid?

Options

a

1 only

Answer
b

2 only

c

Both 1 and 2

d

Neither 1 nor 2

Explanation

Assumption 1 is valid. The passage asserts that "extending to the smallholders... of Africa and Asia the best of today's agricultural practices... would lead to a greatly increased availability of food." This assumes current poor-country techniques require structural change/updating to solve the food crisis.

Assumption 2 is invalid. The text notes that better roads and storage would "reduce wastage" in developing countries. However, it never claims that developed countries currently waste less overall food. Developed nations notoriously have massive consumption-side food waste, a variable the text avoids comparing altogether.

Reject assumption options that create comparative judgements between two entities (developed vs. developing waste) when the passage only diagnoses one side.

Answer: (a).

Question details

Year

2022

Paper

CSAT

Question

Q22

Section

Reading Comprehension

Sub-topic

Agriculture / Technology passage

Type

Statement-based

Difficulty

Medium

Source hint

Passage (Agricultural technology) - Q22

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