Direction: The passage given contains blanks, choose the best choice in each case from the words in the options and mark your answer accordingly.

An agricultural economist reports that the largest boost to farm income comes from investment in rural roads compared to other forms of agri‐related investment. This offers a key __(1)____ that our policymaking obsession with the technical means of rising yields has ignored: farm production, too, is ___(2)__ by the market. If you provide farmers easier ____(3)____ to markets for farm inputs and output, they would use it to raise output and incomes. If the best seeds and fertiliser boost production in an interior village which cannot evacuate the ___(4)____ harvest to a market outside, the only result would be to depress local prices and farmers' incomes. On the other hand, if farmers can take their produce to buyers outside, their incomes would ___(5)___.