Cloze Test – Test 161

In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case.

Starting in the 1990s, agriculture in India particularly in rural India has declined at a devastating rate. This has had a calamitous (21) on the livelihoods associated (22) agriculture. Symptoms of this agrarian distress, unprecedented in postIndependent India, are a high rate of suicides amongst farmers. The crisis is characterized by low institutionalized credit to small farmers. <br> Between 1995 and 2014 2,96,438 farmers have (23) suicide in India. On average, 3,685 farmers in the state took their lives every year between 200413. <br> According to P. Sainath, a leading Indian journalist (24) reports on the rural India and its unprecedented economic crisis, for the first time as per 2011 Census of India urban India (25) more to its population than rural India. This implies that millions of people earlier engaged in agriculture are roaming around the India in footloose migration search for daily wages. This points to the destruction of livelihoods in the predominantly agrarian rural India. Another evidence for a major agrarian crisis in India is the very high rate in which people are leaving occupations associated with farming<br>

In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case.

Starting in the 1990s, agriculture in India particularly in rural India has declined at a devastating rate. This has had a calamitous (21) on the livelihoods associated (22) agriculture. Symptoms of this agrarian distress, unprecedented in postIndependent India, are a high rate of suicides amongst farmers. The crisis is characterized by low institutionalized credit to small farmers. <br> Between 1995 and 2014 2,96,438 farmers have (23) suicide in India. On average, 3,685 farmers in the state took their lives every year between 200413. <br> According to P. Sainath, a leading Indian journalist (24) reports on the rural India and its unprecedented economic crisis, for the first time as per 2011 Census of India urban India (25) more to its population than rural India. This implies that millions of people earlier engaged in agriculture are roaming around the India in footloose migration search for daily wages. This points to the destruction of livelihoods in the predominantly agrarian rural India. Another evidence for a major agrarian crisis in India is the very high rate in which people are leaving occupations associated with farming<br>

In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case.

Starting in the 1990s, agriculture in India particularly in rural India has declined at a devastating rate. This has had a calamitous (21) on the livelihoods associated (22) agriculture. Symptoms of this agrarian distress, unprecedented in postIndependent India, are a high rate of suicides amongst farmers. The crisis is characterized by low institutionalized credit to small farmers. <br> Between 1995 and 2014 2,96,438 farmers have (23) suicide in India. On average, 3,685 farmers in the state took their lives every year between 200413. <br> According to P. Sainath, a leading Indian journalist (24) reports on the rural India and its unprecedented economic crisis, for the first time as per 2011 Census of India urban India (25) more to its population than rural India. This implies that millions of people earlier engaged in agriculture are roaming around the India in footloose migration search for daily wages. This points to the destruction of livelihoods in the predominantly agrarian rural India. Another evidence for a major agrarian crisis in India is the very high rate in which people are leaving occupations associated with farming<br>