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Read the following passage carefully:

In recent years, several state governments have introduced digital land record management systems to simplify agricultural credit allocation. By integrating land ownership data with banking portals, the administration aims to eliminate the need for physical land verification by bank officials, thereby reducing the processing time for crop loans from several weeks to just a few days. Advocates argue that this automation will significantly enhance smallholder farmers' access to formal institutional credit, preventing their reliance on informal moneylenders who charge exorbitant interest rates. However, rural credit access depends not only on fast verification but also on financial literacy and the physical availability of banking branches in remote villages. Nevertheless, expanding digital land portals remains the primary strategy for formalizing agricultural credit.

Which of the following is a crucial underlying assumption made by the author in claiming that digital land portals will enhance farmers' access to formal credit?

  1. Smallholder farmers possess or can access the digital means necessary to utilize integrated land record banking portals.Cevap
  2. B
    Integrating land ownership data with banking portals reduces crop loan processing time by eliminating physical land verification.
  3. C
    Informal moneylenders in rural regions operate entirely outside legal frameworks without any state regulation.
  4. D
    Digital land record management systems completely eliminate all existing barriers to rural institutional credit access.

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Smallholder farmers possess or can access the digital means necessary to utilize integrated land record banking portals.
The author argues that creating digital land record portals will enhance smallholder farmers' access to formal credit. For digital portals to achieve this outcome, smallholder farmers must actually be able to access or use these digital channels. If farmers lack digital access, digitizing records will not improve their ability to secure loans. Therefore, the statement regarding farmers' digital access is a mandatory unstated assumption.

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1
Identify the author's core conclusion
The author concludes that expanding digital land portals will enhance smallholder farmers' access to formal institutional credit.
An assumption is an unstated premise required for the conclusion to hold true.
2
Apply the negation test to the candidate assumption
If smallholder farmers cannot access digital portals, then digitizing land records cannot increase their access to credit.
Because negating this claim causes the author's main argument to collapse, it is a necessary underlying assumption.

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Identifying Unstated Assumptions via the Negation Test
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Passage Assumptions and Underlying Premises

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