93 B English passage 22 Feb
Passage 1
Read below given statements
1. if the children have regular intake of food
2. after they cross the age of five.
3 if the food needs of younger children a known.
4. if the responsibility of feeding young children is given to adults.
Read below given passage
1. Malnutrition most commonly occurs between the ages of six months and two years.
2.This happens despite the child's food requirements being less than that of an older child.
3. Malnutrition is often attributed to poverty, but it has been found that even in households where adults eat adequate quantities of food, more than 50 per cent of children-under- five do not consume enough food.
4.The child's dependence on someone else to feed him/her is primarily responsible for the malnutrition.
5.Very often the mother is working and the responsibility of feeding the young child is left to an older sibling.
6. It is therefore crucial to increase awareness regarding the child's food needs and how to satisfy them.
According to the passage, malnutrition in children can be reduced
1. if the children have regular intake of food
2. after they cross the age of five.
3 if the food needs of younger children a known.
4. if the responsibility of feeding young children is given to adults.
Ans. 3
Explanation
Malnutrition is caused when the children of the age group six months to 2 years do not consume enough food as their requirement. So, it is necessary to increase awaren regarding child's food needs and how to satisfy them.
Passage 2
Read below given statement
1. farmers are extremely risk-averse.
2.farmers do not know how to mitigate risks.
3 the methods adopted by farmers and existing risk sharing institutions are not adequate.
4.majority of farmers depend on rain-fed agriculture.
Read below given passage
1.A number of empirical studies find that farmers are risk-averse, though only moderately in many
2.cases. There is also evidence to show that farmers' results in cropping patterns use designed to reduce risk rather than to maximu use me.
3. Farmers adopt a number of strategies to inanage and cope with agricultural risks.
4.These include practices like crop and field diversificatione ind-farm employment, storage of stocks and strategic migration of family members.
5.There are also institutions ranging from share tenancy to kinship, extended family and informal credit agencies.
6. One major obstacle to risk sharing by farmers is that the same type of risks can affect a large number of farmers in the region.
7. Empirical studies show that the traditional methods are not adequate. Hence there is a need for policy interventions, especially measures that cut across geographical regions.
8.Policies may aim at tackling agricultural risks directly or indirectly.
9. Examples of risk-specific policies are crop insurance, price stabilization and the development of varieties resistant to pests and diseases.
10.Policies which affect risk indirectly are irrigation, subsidized credit and access to information.
11. No single risk-specific policy is sufficient to reduce risk and is without side-effects, whereas policies not specific to risk influence the general situation and affect risks only indirectly.
12.Crop insurance, as a policy measure to tackle agricultural risk directly, deserves careful consideration in the Indian context and in many other developing countries - because the majority of farmers depend on rain-fed agriculture and in many areas yield variability is the predominant cause of their income instability.
The need for policy intervention to mitigate risks in agriculture is because
1. farmers are extremely risk-averse.
2.farmers do not know how to mitigate risks.
3 the methods adopted by farmers and existing risk sharing institutions are not adequate.
4.majority of farmers depend on rain-fed agriculture.
Ans. 3
Explanation
Referring to the last line of the first paragraph, it is mentioned that traditional methods that farmers adopts are not adequate in agriculture. Hence, there is a need for policy intervention to mitigate risk in agriculture.