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.
Any biological breakthrough in the world is a result of an immense amount of research which involves a lot of cost, time and energy. The results have to be coherently in the required positive direction before being introduced to be consumed by human beings. This entire process invites a lot of questions to be answered in order to achieve a better understanding and create more trust amongst the consumers.
*Is it solving the problem?
To start with, one needs to understand the basic question of whether it is really solving the problem with the amount of extra resources to be put in. The amount of extra cost borne by the government and the farmers should be worth enough against the new variety of seed.
*Should we look for alternatives?
Considering the Life Cycle Cost Analysis technique of assessing the new option, other alternatives of Vitamin A should also be compared with the given solution. The one with the lowest cost and effort wins.
*Subsidy duration?
A government is an immense organization that has to manage it resources very efficiently in order make things work. Investing a large amount of fortune in this solution can be a trade-off for other development plans which were even higher on the priority list. If the finances are not well managed, the farmers will be deprived of the subsidy which will directly affect the profits they would make in that particular cropping season. This will lead to farmers shifting back to the original variety taking the government back to square one.
*Effecting on cropping?
The new engineered crop can be different in the aspect of cropping pattern. If the time duration required for the new variant is different, it will create problems as it disrupts the cycle of other crops. If the amount of water and fertilizers required increases, then again there is a direct impact on the farmers as the cost required is increased.
All the above mentioned parameters should be properly evaluated before bringing in a change around a staple food or else there will be lots of problems.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'if', 'look', 'really', 'so', 'then', 'well', 'as to', 'to start with']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.250673854447 0.25644967241 98% => OK
Verbs: 0.177897574124 0.15541462614 114% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0754716981132 0.0836205057962 90% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0431266846361 0.0520304965353 83% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0188679245283 0.0272364105082 69% => OK
Prepositions: 0.129380053908 0.125424944231 103% => OK
Participles: 0.0700808625337 0.0416121511921 168% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.70630905921 2.79052419416 97% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0296495956873 0.026700313972 111% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.134770889488 0.113004496875 119% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0323450134771 0.0255425247493 127% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.010781671159 0.0127820249294 84% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2053.0 2731.13054187 75% => OK
No of words: 346.0 446.07635468 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.93352601156 6.12365571057 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31289638616 4.57801047555 94% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.372832369942 0.378187486979 99% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.280346820809 0.287650121315 97% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.199421965318 0.208842608468 95% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.112716763006 0.135150697306 83% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70630905921 2.79052419416 97% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 207.018472906 92% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.549132947977 0.469332199767 117% => OK
Word variations: 59.8993773881 52.1807786196 115% => OK
How many sentences: 19.0 20.039408867 95% => OK
Sentence length: 18.2105263158 23.2022227129 78% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.6316883684 57.7814097925 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.052631579 141.986410481 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2105263158 23.2022227129 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.473684210526 0.724660767414 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 9.0 5.14285714286 175% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.58251231527 0% => OK
Readability: 46.2452083967 51.9672348444 89% => OK
Elegance: 1.87640449438 1.8405768891 102% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.37643409112 0.441005458295 85% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.122370400804 0.135418324435 90% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.1049860023 0.0829849096947 127% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.724187685177 0.58762219726 123% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.192836576627 0.147661913831 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.14123946405 0.193483328276 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0813552061611 0.0970749176394 84% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.144526499173 0.42659136922 34% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.115536081555 0.0774707102158 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.167644533348 0.312017818177 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.111260707375 0.0698173142475 159% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.33743842365 120% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.87684729064 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.82512315271 83% => OK
Positive topic words: 4.0 6.46551724138 62% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 5.36822660099 56% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.82389162562 35% => OK
Total topic words: 8.0 14.657635468 55% => 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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