Read the following passage and answer the item that follows. Your answer to this item should be based on the passage only.

Compared to other agrarian economies, India's shift out of subsistence farming has been slow, weighed down by the fact that most of its farms remain small and fragmented. Yet even within this constraint, when relative prices moved in favour of horticulture and livestock over the last decade, private investment in these sub-sectors rose sharply, farm incomes in affected regions grew faster, and rural non-farm employment expanded alongside it.

Which one of the following statements best reflects the critical message of the passage?