Question

Which disrupted food chain led to the Great Chinese Famine?

• A. Plants $\to$ Sparrow $\to$ Snake
• B. Plants $\to$ Locust $\to$ Mouse
• C. Plants $\to$ Grasshopper $\to$ Sparrow
• D. Plants $\to$ Locust$\to$ Sparrow

Answer 1

The correct option is D Plants $\to$ Locust$\to$ Sparrow

The sparrow campaign was an initiative which eventually led to the Great Chinese Famine. In this initiative all the sparrows were killed in the assumption that they pecked away all the grains. Little did they know that, they had disrupted an entire food chain.

Plants $\to$ Locust$\to$ Sparrow

In the food chain, the sparrows were actually feeding on the locusts that had been infesting the crops. When the sparrows were killed there was no predator to feed on these locusts and a disaster had occurred.