Question:
What are the benefits from PDS?
Answer:
i. Stabilizes prices of food grains.
ii. Ensures food is available at affordable price.
iii. Combats hunger and famine by supplying food from surplus region to deficiet region.
iv. Prices set with poor household in consideration.
v. Provides income security to farmers.
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?
