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English Comprehension Reading Comprehension (C)

Directions for the following item: Read the following passage and answer the items that follow the passages. Your answers to these items should be based on the passages only.

Food consumption patterns have changed substantially in India over the past few decades. This has resulted in the disappearance of many nutritious foods such as millets. While food grain production has increased over five times since independence, it has not sufficiently addressed the issue of malnutrition For long, the agriculture sector focussed on increasing food production particularly staples, which led to lower production and consumption of indigenous traditional crops/grains, fruits and other vegetables, impacting food and nutrition security in the process, Further, intensive, monoculture agriculture practices can perpetuate the food and nutrition security problem by degrading the quality of land, water and food derived through them.

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

1. To implement the Sustainable Development Goals and to achieve zero-hunger goal, monoculture agriculture practices are inevitable even if they do not address malnutrition .

2. Dependence on a few crops has negative consequences for human health and the ecosystem

3. Government policies regarding food planning need to incorporate nutritional security.

4. For the present monoculture agriculture practices, farmers receive subsidies in various ways and government offers remunerative prices for grains and therefore they do not tend to consider crop diversity.

Which of the above assumptions are valid ?

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Explanation:

- Assumption 1: The passage does not suggest that monoculture practices are needed to achieve zero-hunger goals. Instead, it highlights negative impacts on nutrition.

- Assumption 2: The passage describes dependence on a few staple crops and the decline of diverse traditional crops, impacting human health and the ecosystem negatively.

- Assumption 3: The passage suggests that the focus should shift from just increasing production to also considering nutritional security.

- Assumption 4: The passage does not explicitly state subsidies and pricing as reasons for monoculture, so this assumption cannot be directly inferred.

Considering these points, the valid assumptions are:

2 and 3 only