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Difficulty: MediumLiteral Comprehension and Fact Retrieval

Read the passage below carefully:

The Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria (CRIN) was established in Ibadan, Oyo State, on December 1, 1964, as a successor institute to the Nigerian station of the West African Cocoa Research Institute (WACRI). CRIN was founded by the Federal Government of Nigeria to boost the production of cocoa and four other tree crops: cashew, kola, coffee, and tea. Although its primary administrative headquarters remain in Idi-Ayonre, Ibadan, CRIN maintains six substations across different geopolitical zones in Nigeria. The institute is specifically mandated to conduct research into the genetic improvement, agronomy, crop protection, and processing of all five target crops.

Statement: The Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria was established to conduct research exclusively on cocoa.

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The statement is False because the text explicitly confirms that the institute's research mandate encompasses cocoa along with cashew, kola, coffee, and tea.
The statement is false because the passage explicitly enumerates five tree crops—cocoa, cashew, kola, coffee, and tea—under the institute's mandate, directly refuting the claim of exclusive focus on cocoa.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Locate the sentence in the passage detailing the crops covered by the institute.
The passage notes that CRIN was founded to boost the production of cocoa and four other tree crops: cashew, kola, coffee, and tea.
Literal comprehension requires extracting exact factual statements directly from the text.
2
Evaluate the statement's assertion of exclusivity against the passage evidence.
The statement claims research was conducted 'exclusively on cocoa,' which directly contradicts the five crops listed in the text.
Absolute qualifiers like 'exclusively' misrepresent the multi-crop mandate described by the author.

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Literal Comprehension and Fact Retrieval
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