निम्नलिखित में से कौन-सा उपर्युक्त परिच्छेद का सर्वाधिक तार्किक उपनिगमन (कोरोलरी) है?
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Which among the following is the most logical corollary to the above passage?
(a) Increasing the efficiency of farm-to-fork value chain is necessary to reduce the poverty and malnutrition. · (b) Increasing the agricultural productivity will automatically eliminate the poverty and malnutrition in India. · (c) India’s agricultural productivity is already great and it is not necessary to increase it further. · (d) Allocation of more funds for social welfare and poverty alleviation programmes will ultimately eliminate the poverty and malnutrition in India.
उत्तर और व्याख्या · explanation in English
Answer: (a) गरीबी और कुपोषण को कम करने के लिए खेत-से-थाली (फार्म-टु-फोर्क) तक की मूल्य शृंखला की दक्षता में बढ़ोतरी करना जरूरी है।
India produces record amounts of food and holds huge grain stocks, yet a quarter of the world's undernourished live here and many households spend about half their budget on food. The gap lies between the farm and the plate, so improving the farm-to-fork chain follows logically.
- ✓ (a) Full granaries alongside hunger point to a failure in moving food efficiently and affordably to people — the farm-to-fork chain.
- ✗ (b) Production is already at a record, yet malnutrition persists, so more output will not 'automatically' remove it.
- ✗ (c) The passage notes record production but does not say productivity is high enough to stop improving.
- ✗ (d) Welfare funding is not discussed, and 'will ultimately eliminate' is an overstatement.
Remember · A 'corollary' follows directly from the passage's contrast — plenty of food alongside hunger points to distribution, not production.
Question and answer: UPSC's official GS Paper II (2017, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 30 Sept 2026 (how we verify). ·