Directions: A passage is given. You have to assume everything in the passage to be true and then consider the options to decide which of them logically follows.
There is an alarming increase in the number of suicides among the farmers of the nation. Their crops are highly required for survival by the whole nation, but these poor farmers don’t receive even half of the profits they are supposed to get. With the shortage of rainfall and lack of knowledge of irrigation methods, it gets harder on the farmers who would have taken up loans for their crops and are left without anything to pay back.
How can these suicides be brought under control?
1
The government needs to provide farmers with incentives and subsidies to encourage them.
2
The farmers have to be given an increased amount as the Minimum Support Price which makes them feel more secure.
3
The agricultural institutes and departments need to provide farmers with basic fertilizers and also educate them on farming using optimum water.
4
All 1, 2 and 3.
5
None of the above.