Kernland imposes a high tariff on the exports of unprocessed cashew nuts in order to ensure that the nuts are sold to domestic processing plants. if the tarriff were lifted and unprocessed cashews were sold at world markets prices, more farmers could profit by growing cashews. however, since all the processing plants are in urban areas, removing the tarriff would seriously hamper the goververnment's efforts to reduce urban unemployment over the nesxt five years

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument

C. more people in kenland are engaged in farming cashews than in processing them

E. A lack of profitable crops is driving an increasing number of small farmers in kernland off their land and into the Cities

Which is the correct answer, E or C

Agreed. E
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I thought the argument here is removing the tarriff would seriously hamper the goververnment's efforts to reduce urban unemployment over the nesxt five years. if there is a condition which shows that the government can remove the tarrif and have little consequence, as C demostrates, then that weekens the argument.

Kernland imposes a high tariff on the export of unprocessed cashew nuts in order to ensure that the nuts are sold to domestic processing plants. If the tariff were lifted and unprocessed cashews were sold at world market prices, more farmers could profit by growing cashews. However, since all the processing plants are in urban areas, removing the tariff would seriously hamper the government’s effort to reduce urban unemployment
over the next five years.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?

A. Some of the by-products of processing cashews are used for manufacturing paints and plastics.

B. Other countries in which cashews are processed subsidize their processing plants.

C. More people in Kernland are engaged in farming cashews than in processing them.

D. Buying unprocessed cashews at lower than world market prices enables cashew processors in Kernland to sell processed nuts at competitive prices.

E. A lack of profitable crops is driving an increasing number of small farmers in Kernland off their land and into the cities.

The assumption is that the removal of the tariff will allow the farmers to sell at a higher price. therefore, they would grow more cashews. The result will be that the processing plants can't buy at those prices and will ahve to close down. I think the answer is D

E it should be.
C does not address the urban unemployment problem.

I will go for E as the concern is about the unemployment in urban areas