You are going to read a text about problems of agriculture sector. Some sentences are missing from the text. Choose from the list (A-C) the most appropriate sentences to complete the text. There is also an extra sentence that you do not need to use.

Employing a little less than half the work force, agriculture makes up around 15% of the economy. 1) _________. Fragmentation of land holdings and low yields are long standing problems. 2) _______________ So far, government’s stock response has been to announce higher support prices or waive loans. Recent experience shows that these responses are at best palliatives. Structural reforms are the need of the hour.

A. To add to them a new one has arisen: climate change.

B. The size of the pie here is very small

C. The demands of the farmers may be specific to Maharashtra but the underlying problems and their symptoms are visible across the country.