How did farms play a role in the great leap forward? (5 points) china's large amount of farmland was used to harvest crops to sell to other countries. farmland was used as backyard furnaces to create high quality metals to export. farms were grouped into large communes to produce steel throughout china. farmers were paid by the government to increase agricultural and crop quotas

The correct answer is C) Farms were grouped into large communes to produce steel throughout China.

Farms played a role in the Great Leap Forward in that Farms were grouped into large communes to produce steel throughout China.

The second five-year plan of Mao Zedong, the Communist leader of China was the Great Leap Forward. Mao wanted a quick development of the Chinese industry and agriculture. He wanted China to be an industrial power instead of an agrarian society. The plan aimed to see notorious results in five years.

Mao ordered the formation of communes with small-scale steel furnaces built in the backyard of the communes. The plan did not work.

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