A district industries officer answers an objection: 'The claim that the proposed cashew processing park will not find raw nut enough to work on cannot be right. Were it right, the eleven crore sanctioned would have to be surrendered and the district would lose the only industrial scheme it has been given in a decade.' Which of the following, if true, most weakens the officer's position?

The officer has met a claim about the supply of nut with an account of what it would cost him to accept it, so nothing he says bears on the supply and the way to damage his position is to speak to the nut itself. Two-fifths of a single shift's requirement, falling for six years, is exactly that. Nut bought from the districts to the south would help the park work and so tells for the officer, not against him. Land already held lowers the cost of building and says nothing about raw material. That the money could not be spent elsewhere sharpens the officer's regret without making the nut any more plentiful.