UPSC Civil Services 2025 Prelims General Studies Paper II

Directions for the following 4 (four) items :
Read the following two passages and answer the items that follow the passages. Your answers to thes items should be based on the passages only.
Passage - 1
One of the dismal realities of the agricultural sector in independent India has been that it never experienced a high-growth phase, unlike the non-agricultural economy. The highest decadal growth (compound annual growth rate or CAGR) for agriculture has been just 3.5% in the 1980s. Also, after experiencing a spurt in decadal growth during the 1980s, agricultural growth suffered relative stagnation thereafter. This is in sharp contrast to non-agricultural growth, which consistently increased from the 1980s to 2000s.