Directions: The first and the last sentences of the passage are numbered 1 and 6, respectively. The rest of the passage is split into four parts A, B, C and D. These four parts are not given in their proper order. Read the sentences and find out which of the following combinations is correct.
- The investment in supercrops reflects the government’s intention of ‘doing development differently’. A. They have been created through selective breeding of strains with naturally higher levels of certain vitamins and minerals. B. And iron-rich pearl millet and zinc-rich wheat and rice are aimed at India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. C. The crops include vitamin A-rich cassava and maize and iron-rich beans – targeted at the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Rwanda and Zambia. D. The six new supercrop varieties of staple crops will be distributed to 3.8 million farmers and their families by 2015.
- The nutrient-loaded crops will contain between 30 and 50 percent of the average daily requirement for vitamin A, zinc and iron.
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