Assertion (A): During the Great Depression, agricultural regions and communities were worst affected.

Reason(R): The fall in agricultural prices was greater and more prolonged than that in the prices of industrial goods.

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Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

(A) is true but (R) is false.

(A) is false but (R) is true.

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Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
The Great Depression was the most terrible financial downturn ever to influence the industrialized world which started from the securities exchange crash of 1929 till the start of World War II in 1939. The circumstance was exacerbated as a serious dry spell hit on the horticultural conditions of the midwestern United States. At the level of the Depression in 1932, world commodities of natural substances had fallen by 70 % destroying the economies of numerous states which relied upon the product of food and unrefined components for their pay. The field of agriculture was more affected than the industrial sector and the condition of the peasants worsened. Agricultural overproduction resulted in a major decrease in prices and thus the income from this sector declined to a large extent.

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