Read the following passage carefully:
Under the Bio-Reserve Stewardship Protocol, regional conservation authorities are authorized to issue operational grants to indigenous farming cooperatives cultivating shade-grown coffee within buffer zones, provided that at least seventy percent of the total cultivated area retains native canopy cover. The protocol mandates that any cooperative receiving a stewardship grant must undergo bi-annual biodiversity audits conducted by independent ecologists. Cooperatives that fail two consecutive audits lose eligibility for all state-backed agricultural subsidies for five years, regardless of their crop yield or financial performance. Recent monitoring reports indicate that while forty percent of registered cooperatives in the western corridor failed their first bi-annual audit due to unauthorized canopy thinning, more than half of these failing entities successfully restored native canopy density prior to their second audit. However, farming cooperatives operating without state stewardship grants remain completely exempt from these bi-annual ecology audits, even if their land directly borders designated bio-reserves.
Based strictly on the passage above, which of the following logical deductions MUST be true?
- A grant-receiving cooperative that fails two consecutive bi-annual biodiversity audits is barred from receiving state-backed agricultural subsidies for five years.Cevap
- BFarming cooperatives operating without state stewardship grants cause greater ecological disruption to bio-reserves than grant-funded cooperatives.
- CAll registered cooperatives in the western corridor that failed their first bi-annual audit were immediately stripped of their state agricultural subsidies.
- DThe fundamental goal of the Bio-Reserve Stewardship Protocol is to ensure that indigenous farming cooperatives maximize their coffee yields and annual revenues.