Villagers in Xiaogang, China, produced more rice than those in surrounding villages because:

a. they had better farmland.
b. they were given better seeds.
c. they were able to keep the output they produced individually.
d. they made each family responsible for a certain, higher quota of rice production.
e. they had common ownership over the rice produced.


c

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