Question:
Write notes on:Minimum Support Price, Buffer Stock, Issue Price and Fair Price Shops.
Answer:
a. Minimum Support Price
The farmers are paid a pre-announced price for their crops. This price is called Minimum Support Price. The MSP is declared by the government every year before the sowing season to provide incentives to the farmers for raising the production of these crops.
b. Buffer Stock
Buffer Stock is the stock of food grains, namely wheat and rice procured by the government through Food Corporation of India (FCI).
c.Issue Price
Buffer stock is created to distribute food grains in the deficit areas and among the poorer strata of society at a price lower than the market price also known as Issue Price. This also helps resolve the problem of shortage of food during adverse weather conditions or during the periods of calamity.
d. Fair Price Shops
The food procured by the FCI is distributed through government regulated ration shops among the poorer section of the society. This is called the public distribution system (PDS). Ration shops are now present in most localities, villages, towns and cities. There are about 4.6 lakh ration shops all over the country. Ration shops also known as Fair Price Shops keep stock of food grains, sugar, kerosene oil for cooking. These items are sold to people at a price lower.
Food Security in India
Q 1.
Name the year when a devastating famine occurred in India.
Q 2.
Why is agriculture a seasonal activity?
Q 3.
What is food security? What conditions should be fulfilled to ensure food security in a country like India?
Q 5.
A section of people in India are still without food. Explain?
Q 6.
List the three A's Food security implies to?
Q 7.
What is buffer stock?
Q 9.
Which states are more food insecure in India?
Q 10.
List the kinds of ration cards available?
Q 11.
What are the dimensions of food security?
Q 12.
Write a note on the role of cooperatives in providing food and related items.
Q 13.
Why is food security essential?
Q 14.
Why is a buffer stock created by the government?
Q 15.
What is Minimum Support Price?
Q 16.
What are the benefits from PDS?
Q 17.
How is food security ensured in India?
Q 18.
What is Public Distribution System (PDS)?
Q 19.
Which two special schemes related to food security were launched in 2000? What were the objective of these schemes?
Q 20.
What is Chronic hunger?
Q 21.
Which are the people more prone to food insecurity?
Q 22.
Describe any three categories of people who are prone to food insecurity.
Q 23.
Define Green Revolution.
Q 24.
Do you believe that green revolution has made India self-sufficient in food grains? How?
Q 25.
Define malnutrition.
Q 26.
What are the functions of food corporation of India?
Q 27.
Differentiate between seasonal hunger and chronic hunger?
Q 28.
How does World Summit 1995 define 'Food Security'?
Q 29.
Name any six co-operative societies of the country.
Q 30.
What happens to the supply of food when there is a disaster or a calamity?
Q 31.
Describe the achievements of Public Distribution System (PDS).
Q 32.
What changes have been noticed in the Public Distribution System recently?
Q 33.
How is food security affected during a calamity?
Q 34.
What is seasonal hunger?
Q 35.
Write notes on:Minimum Support Price, Buffer Stock, Issue Price and Fair Price Shops.
Q 36.
What has our government done to provide food security to the poor? Discuss any two schemes launched by the government?
