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Assessing assumptions on future food security and corporate farming

Reading Comp.Agriculture / Technology passageStatement-basedMedium

Question

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

1Growing enough food for future generations will be a challenge.
2Corporate farming is a viable option for food security in poor countries.

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 opens by outlining plateauing yields, land scarcity, and the threat of rising global temperatures making places "unsuitable for farming." The entire text seeks technological solutions precisely because feeding humanity is a looming challenge.

Assumption 2 is invalid. The term "corporate farming" is never mentioned. Instead, the author explicitly advocates extending better practices to "smallholders and subsistence farmers"—the exact opposite of large-scale corporate consolidation.

Discard assumption options that introduce highly specific economic or political frameworks (like "corporate farming") that are not supported by the passage's terminology.

Answer: (a).

Question details

Year

2022

Paper

CSAT

Question

Q23

Section

Reading Comprehension

Sub-topic

Agriculture / Technology passage

Type

Statement-based

Difficulty

Medium

Source hint

Passage (Agricultural technology) - Q23

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