Question

1. How is food security ensured in India?
2. Which are the people more prone to food insecurity?
3. Which states are more food insecure in India?
4. Do you believe that green revolution has made India self-sufficient in food
grains? How?
5. A section of people in India are still without food. Explain?
6. What happens to the supply of food when there is a disaster or a calamity?
7. Differentiate between seasonal hunger and chronic hunger?
8. What has our government done to provide food security to the poor? Discuss
any two schemes launched by the government?
9. Why buffer stock is created by the government?
10. Write notes on:
Tal Minimum support price
f ) Buffer stock
c) Issue price
d) Fair price shops
11. What are the problems of the functioning of ration shops?
12. Write a note on the role of cooperatives in providing food and related items.​

Answer 1

Answer:

1)

India food security is ensure through its two components: i) buffer stock: in cases of scarcity of food this food grains are distributed in the affected areas among the underprivileged sections of the society at lower prices. This also resolve the problem of food scarcity during unfavourable weather conditions