An international development organization, in response to a vitamin A deficiency among people in the impoverished nation of Tagus, has engineered a new breed of millet high in vitamin A. While seeds for this new type of millet cost more, farmers will be paid subsidies for farming the new variety of millet. Since millet is already a staple food in Tagus, people will readily adopt the new variety. To combat vitamin A deficiency, the government of Tagus should do everything it can to promote this new type of millet.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
Genetically modified crops are one of the most socially impactful innovations of the modern agricultural science. GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) crops have solved problems of drought susceptibility, low pest resistence and poor yields present in the unmodified, naturally existing plant species. GMO crops are also proving to be useful in specific regions which are found to be deficient in a particular nutrient by engineering a GMO breed, often of the staple food,rich in the deficient nutrient.
However, the efficacy of the GMO breed depends upon quite a few factors. Firstly, whether the human body is able to absorb the enhanced nutritional content from GMO species or not. It has been often seen that the body does not absorb the fortified elments like Iron, Copper, etc., from fortified floors which add these elements externally. So, before one gets down to developing such a species, it should be ensured that the additional nutrient is indeed absorbed by the body rather than getting rejected by the digestive system.
The impact of the GMO species on the soil also needs to be considered. The new crop would surely absorb additional minerals from the soil to become rich in Vitamin A. A question arises about the sustainability of the new plant in the existing soil ecosystem and whether the crop would require the use of a fertilizer. If it needs a fertilizer, the effect of the fertilizer upon the nearby water bodies, where it may reach by getting washed off from the field, also needs to be taken into account.
In the end, the affordability of the new crop as compared to the naturally existing variety is also a cause of concern. Since the new breed is expensive than the earlier one, the cost paid by the farmer would ultimately trickle down to the consumers and determine its consumption. Hence, the mechanism to subsidize the cost of new seeds needs to be long lasting. Otherwise, a separate scheme needs to be figured out so that the witdrawl of subsidies doesn't decrease the consumption of the new breed and achieves the expected result of eradicating Vitamin A deficiency.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 469, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , rich
...ng a GMO breed, often of the staple food,rich in the deficient nutrient. However, ...
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Line 3, column 185, Rule ID: ADVERB_WORD_ORDER[8]
Message: The adverb 'often' is usually put between 'has' and 'been'.
Suggestion: has often been
...nal content from GMO species or not. It has been often seen that the body does not absorb the ...
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Line 7, column 451, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...d out so that the witdrawl of subsidies doesnt decrease the consumption of the new bre...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'first', 'firstly', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'so']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.248704663212 0.25644967241 97% => OK
Verbs: 0.158031088083 0.15541462614 102% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0906735751295 0.0836205057962 108% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0621761658031 0.0520304965353 119% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0129533678756 0.0272364105082 48% => OK
Prepositions: 0.126943005181 0.125424944231 101% => OK
Participles: 0.0621761658031 0.0416121511921 149% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.79425180843 2.79052419416 100% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0310880829016 0.026700313972 116% => OK
Particles: 0.00518134715026 0.001811407834 286% => OK
Determiners: 0.137305699482 0.113004496875 122% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0129533678756 0.0255425247493 51% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00777202072539 0.0127820249294 61% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2105.0 2731.13054187 77% => OK
No of words: 352.0 446.07635468 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.98011363636 6.12365571057 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33147354134 4.57801047555 95% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.360795454545 0.378187486979 95% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.284090909091 0.287650121315 99% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.215909090909 0.208842608468 103% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.122159090909 0.135150697306 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79425180843 2.79052419416 100% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 207.018472906 93% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.545454545455 0.469332199767 116% => OK
Word variations: 59.607299126 52.1807786196 114% => OK
How many sentences: 15.0 20.039408867 75% => OK
Sentence length: 23.4666666667 23.2022227129 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.0567765553 57.7814097925 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.333333333 141.986410481 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4666666667 23.2022227129 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.533333333333 0.724660767414 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.14285714286 78% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 3.58251231527 84% => OK
Readability: 51.8757575758 51.9672348444 100% => OK
Elegance: 1.87777777778 1.8405768891 102% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.296648129864 0.441005458295 67% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.166422749678 0.135418324435 123% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0497333787563 0.0829849096947 60% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.669114169216 0.58762219726 114% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.0944201791717 0.147661913831 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.152345892065 0.193483328276 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0735267650477 0.0970749176394 76% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.489301986845 0.42659136922 115% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.162933471251 0.0774707102158 210% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.220765808035 0.312017818177 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0760483307761 0.0698173142475 109% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.33743842365 60% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.87684729064 29% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.82512315271 166% => OK
Positive topic words: 4.0 6.46551724138 62% => OK
Negative topic words: 0.0 5.36822660099 0% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 5.0 2.82389162562 177% => OK
Total topic words: 9.0 14.657635468 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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