Question

What is the role of FCI in ensuring food security?

Answer 1

FCI or the Food Corporation of India was set up in the year 1965. Its role in ensuring food security include:

·         Maintaining a reasonable price to ensure people from all classes are able to buy them.

·         Purchasing grains from farmers who have surplus at a standardized price in order to avoid mismanagement.

·         Reselling the purchased grains at lesser rates to financially backward society.

·         Providing proper storage facility to avoid loss of grains due to improper storage facility. 

Answer 2

Answer: the role of food corporation of in our country is priced establishing and maintain the sufficient buffer stocks. FCI purchase the food grain mainly from surplus the states like Punjab Haryana ect. And the supply of food grain to army is also done by FCI

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