UPSC Prelims 2023— Question 26

This question tests Small Farmer Large Field under Agricultural Institutions. The central point is Small Farmer Large Field involves marginal farmers coordinating selected operations collectively. Option A: Resettlement of a large number of people, uprooted from their countries due to war, by giving them a large cultivable land which they cultivate collectively and share the produce. This distractor is not the keyed answer because it conflicts with the specific factual relationship, chronology, institutional role, geographic association or conceptual distinction tested in the question. Option B: Many marginal farmers in an area organize themselves into groups and synchronize and harmonize selected agricultural operations. This is the keyed answer because it matches the governing fact or concept: Small Farmer Large Field involves marginal farmers coordinating selected operations collectively. Option C: Many marginal farmers in an area together . make a contract with a corporate body and surrender their land to the corporate body for a fixed term for which the corporate body makes. a payment of agreed amount to the farmers. This distractor is not the keyed answer because it conflicts with the specific factual relationship, chronology, institutional role, geographic association or conceptual distinction tested in the question. Option D: A company extends loans, technical knowledge and material inputs to a number of small farmers in an area so that they produce the agricultural commodity required by the company for its manufacturing process and commercial production. This distractor is not the keyed answer because it conflicts with the specific factual relationship, chronology, institutional role, geographic association or conceptual distinction tested in the question. The question should be approached by checking each statement independently rather than accepting a familiar phrase at face value. This is particularly important in UPSC questions where a single incorrect institutional attribution, location, chronology, absolute word or causal link can invalidate an otherwise plausible option. The broader revision takeaway is to connect the keyed answer with the underlying concept rather than memorizing only the letter. The options also illustrate how UPSC constructs distractors by mixing correct facts with one altered detail. In revision, candidates should therefore retain both the positive fact and the nearest contrasting fact so that the same concept can be recognized when the framing changes in another year.