What is the effect of the author's choice to insert quotations from rice farmers throughout the text?
The quotations illustrate the importance of having farmers' support when trying to implement
government-initiated agricultural policies.
The quotations describe the process of how to grow heirloom rice in ways that are both profitable
to the farmers and environmentally sustainable.
The quotations create sympathy for the plights of farmers who are clinging to a way of life that is
slowly vanishing.
The quotations support the benefits of growing heirloom rice over government varieties that
produce higher yields.