Mobilising surplus agricultural labour: With agriculture described as over-manned, reducing the number of agriculturists would raise their purchasing power, stimulate demand for new goods, and any resulting manpower shortages in production would be met by labour released from agriculture; which statement is best supported?

Given data

• Agriculture is over-manned.
• Fewer agriculturists would raise purchasing power per agriculturist.
• Increased demand would require more production manpower, to be supplied by surplus labour moving from agriculture.

Concept/Approach (labour reallocation)The passage traces a virtuous cycle: reduce surplus in agriculture → higher incomes → new demand → labour needed in production → move surplus labour.

Step-by-Step reasoning1) Over-manning in agriculture implies underutilisation there.2) Demand growth creates labour needs elsewhere (industry/services).3) Therefore, relative to agriculture, other sectors are labour-deficient; reallocation is implied.

Verification/Alternative checkOptions claiming absolute superiority of production jobs or monocausal explanations for economic weakness are not established by the text; the supported claim is the relative surplus/deficit of labour.

Final AnswerThe industrial sector is labour-deficient while the agricultural sector is over-manned in our country.