Assertion(A): In 1984, the Karnataka government set up a company called Karnataka Pulpwood Limited.

Reason(R): The company began to plant eucalyptus trees on this land, which could be used for making paper pulp.

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

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

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

(A) is false but (R) is true

answer is A.

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The assertion and reason are true, and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion.
Karnataka Pulpwood Limited was a governmental organisation established by the Karnataka government in 1984. This corporation was handed about 30,000 hectares of land for gratis for the next 40 years. The corporation then started planting eucalyptus trees on this site, which had been used to make paper pulp. In 1987, a nonviolent protest called Kittiko-Hachchiko (literally "pluck and plant") began, in which individuals removed eucalyptus plants and planted saplings of trees that were valuable to the people.

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