Directions: Read the passage given below and choose the correct option.

Passage: The immediate challenge is on the food front. Shortfalls in production have been allowed to affect supplies and hence prices. The Government is planning to focus on investment in irrigation and even revival of the agricultural extension system. What is probably needed is a fresh dose of green revolution strategy. It appears that the green revolution instruments to encourage farmers to invest are no longer effective. The Green revolution strategy was based on the state taking out the risk of collapse in prices. Farmers were offered remunerative prices and a guaranteed procurement of their products in case the open market could not absorb it. Farmers could then borrow from banks, acquire the green revolution technology and produce as much as they could. The pressure on the food subsidy was manageable as long as there was a food shortage. Prices in the open market then tended to be above the procurement prices. But with food surpluses, the situation has changed. The situation was unsustainable not merely because of the magnitude of this subsidy. It was also insufficient. It meant farmers being led to producing crops based just on the prices Government was reluctant to keep increasing procurement prices at the pace that used to be the norm in earlier.

The farmers tend to produce the crops as per their convenience and not consonant with the demand.