The correct matching of cooperative farming societies is as follows:
- Cooperative better farming society (A): Members own and operate their land individually but collaborate for better inputs, technology, or marketing (III – Ownership and operation individual).
- Cooperative collective farming society (B): Land is owned and farmed collectively, with shared resources and labor (I – Ownership as well as operation collective).
- Cooperative tenant farming society (C): Land is collectively owned, but individuals operate their allocated plots as tenants (II – Ownership collective but operation is individual).
- Cooperative joint farming society (D): Members own their land individually but pool labor and resources for collective farming operations (IV – Ownership individual and operation is collective).
Thus, the correct pairing is
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(A) - (III), (B) - (I), (C) - (II), (D) - (IV), making option (2) correct.