निम्नलिखित में से कौन-सा कथन परिच्छेद के क्रांतिक संदेश का सर्वोत्तम प्रेषण करता है?
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Which one of the following statements best reflects the critical message of the passage?
(a) India should create large-scale off-farm rural employment to reduce poverty in the near future. · (b) India should create a large number of farmer producer companies. · (c) Private investment in agriculture should be given priority over public investment. · (d) Inclusive agricultural growth is key to reduce poverty in the near future.
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Answer: (d) निकट भविष्य में गरीबी कम करने के लिए समावेशी कृषि विकास मुख्य समाधान है।
With half the workforce in farming and most farms small, the passage shows poverty falling fastest when agriculture grew — higher investment, faster agri-GDP growth and rising real farm wages. Growth that reaches this large farm population is the key to cutting poverty.
- ✗ (a) The poverty fall came through agriculture itself; off-farm employment is not mentioned.
- ✗ (b) Farmer producer companies are outside the passage.
- ✗ (c) Private investment rose as a result of prices; the passage never compares it with public investment or ranks them.
- ✓ (d) Agri-GDP growth of 4·1%, a trade surplus and real farm wages rising 7% a year together 'led to unprecedented fall in poverty' — growth that reached farmers and farm workers.
Remember · For the 'critical message', follow the passage's cause-and-effect chain to its end point and choose the option that names the whole chain.
Question and answer: UPSC's official GS Paper II (2020, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 30 Sept 2026 (how we verify). ·