SSC CHSL – SSC CHSL Test 39

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Certain words are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these. <br><br> One hundred years after Dr. R. Nagarajan predicted that population growth would overtake food production by a margin of 350 to 12, the simple fact is that food production had always been ahead of the population growth. Dr. R. Nagarajan's doomsay prediction simply did not come true due to two major reasons: first, population did not grow geometrically and birth rates in all southern countries fell during the 19th century, resulting in very slow population growth. Over the past quarter century, birth rates have been falling in the developing countries too. Second, modern agricultural practices and beter irrigation have resulted in tremendous growth in food production in almost all parts of the globe, with the notable exception of sub­Saharan Africa. Therefore, at the global level, the Nagarajan's doomsay never befell on us. India's population grew by about two and a half times in the past 45 years from 361 million in 1951 to an estimated 961 million in 1995. But during the same period, India's food grain production grew by nearly six times from 51 million tons in 1961 to 198 million tons in 1999. As a result, the per capita food grain availability in India has gone up considerably since the independence. That is, the Nagarajan's prediction has not come true even in India.

In the developing countries, the birth rate is.

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Certain words are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these. <br><br> One hundred years after Dr. R. Nagarajan predicted that population growth would overtake food production by a margin of 350 to 12, the simple fact is that food production had always been ahead of the population growth. Dr. R. Nagarajan's doomsay prediction simply did not come true due to two major reasons: first, population did not grow geometrically and birth rates in all southern countries fell during the 19th century, resulting in very slow population growth. Over the past quarter century, birth rates have been falling in the developing countries too. Second, modern agricultural practices and beter irrigation have resulted in tremendous growth in food production in almost all parts of the globe, with the notable exception of sub­Saharan Africa. Therefore, at the global level, the Nagarajan's doomsay never befell on us. India's population grew by about two and a half times in the past 45 years from 361 million in 1951 to an estimated 961 million in 1995. But during the same period, India's food grain production grew by nearly six times from 51 million tons in 1961 to 198 million tons in 1999. As a result, the per capita food grain availability in India has gone up considerably since the independence. That is, the Nagarajan's prediction has not come true even in India.

India's food production from 1961 to 1999 grew nearly.

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Certain words are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these. <br><br> One hundred years after Dr. R. Nagarajan predicted that population growth would overtake food production by a margin of 350 to 12, the simple fact is that food production had always been ahead of the population growth. Dr. R. Nagarajan's doomsay prediction simply did not come true due to two major reasons: first, population did not grow geometrically and birth rates in all southern countries fell during the 19th century, resulting in very slow population growth. Over the past quarter century, birth rates have been falling in the developing countries too. Second, modern agricultural practices and beter irrigation have resulted in tremendous growth in food production in almost all parts of the globe, with the notable exception of sub­Saharan Africa. Therefore, at the global level, the Nagarajan's doomsay never befell on us. India's population grew by about two and a half times in the past 45 years from 361 million in 1951 to an estimated 961 million in 1995. But during the same period, India's food grain production grew by nearly six times from 51 million tons in 1961 to 198 million tons in 1999. As a result, the per capita food grain availability in India has gone up considerably since the independence. That is, the Nagarajan's prediction has not come true even in India.

The food production had always been of population growth.