The synthetic fertilizers used this year were not effective at all. If these had been effective, our farms would have produced more sugarcane this year than they did last year.
The argument in the passage would be most seriously weakened if it were true that
A) fewer farmers worked on sugarcane farms this year than did last year
B) the weather this year was very conducive to sugarcane crop
C) the author is a proponent of natural fertilizers
D) the overall sugarcane production in the country in this year was more than that of last year
E) the floods at start of this year washed and damaged the sugarcane fields![]()
The argument in the passage would be most seriously weakened if it were true that
A) fewer farmers worked on sugarcane farms this year than did last year
B) the weather this year was very conducive to sugarcane crop
C) the author is a proponent of natural fertilizers
D) the overall sugarcane production in the country in this year was more than that of last year
E) the floods at start of this year washed and damaged the sugarcane fields