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Hunger: The feeling you have when you need to eat.

C) Food Corporation of India

Public Distribution System (PÐS): The system of ration shops distributing food grains and, other essential items is known as the Public Distribution System.

Subsidy prices: To keep the prices low arid In the reach of common people, the government reduces the price by paying Itself the remaining amount.

A) dry land regions

C) nutri – cereals

C) Ration shops

D) to provide essential items to poor at reasonable rate

Buffer stock has been created to meet any exigencies. The buffer stock can be utilized in case of drought or flood or any natural calamity.

The ration shops which come under the PDS are called fair price shops.

Correct option is B) PDS

Ration shops/Fair price shops: The shops where the government provides subsidized prices for food items and fuel for identified families, based on the ration cards.

Correct option is C) 1, 2, 3

MSP means Minimum Supportive Price. The FCI procures food grains and other farm produce by giving MSP for their produce. This ensures farmers of a minimum guarantee for their produce.

(a) Minimum Support Price (MSP) – This is the pre-announced price at which the government purchases foodgrains particularly, wheat and rice from the farmer in order to crate a buffer stock. This price is announced by the government every year before the sowing season to give incentive to the farmers to raise the production of the desired crop. The rising MSPs have raised the maintenance cost of procuring food grains by the government as well as induced farmers to divert land from production of coarse grains to the production of these crops

(b) Buffer Stock – It is the stock of food grains particularly, wheat and rice which the government procures through the Food Corporation of India (FCI). The FCI purchases these cereals directly from the farmers of those states where they are in surplus. The price of these commodities is much before the actual sowing season of these crops. The food grains thus purchased by the FCI are kept in big granaries and are called Buffer Stock. Maintaining buffer stock is a step taken by the government in order to ensure food security in the country.

c) Issue Price – In order to help the poor strata of the society, the government provides them food grains from the buffer stock at a price much lower than the market price. This subsidized price is known as the Issue Price

(d) Fair Price Shops – The foodgrains procured by the government through FCI is distributed to the poor section of the society through ration shops. The Ration Shops are called Fair Price Shops because food grains are supplied to the poor through these shops at much reasonable and a fair price than the market price which is often high. Any family with a ration card can purchase stipulated amount of food grains, sugar, kerosene etc. every month from the nearby fair price shop.

(a) Minimum Support Price:

(i) The Food Corporation of India (FCI) purchases wheat and rice from the farmers in states where there is surplus production.

(ii) The farmers are paid pre-announced price for their crops. This price is called Minimum Support Price (MSP).

(iii) The MSP is declared by the government every year before the sowing season to provide incentives to the farmers for raising production of these crops.   

(b) Buffer Stock:

(i) Buffer stock is the stock of foodgrains namely wheat and rice procured by the government through Food Corporation of India (FCI).

(ii) The FCI purchases wheat and rice from the farmers in states where there is surplus production and stores this grain in the granaries as butter stock.

(iii) This is done to distribute foodgrains in the deficit areas and among the poor strata of society when there is shortage of foodgrains because of crop failure due to natural calamities.   

(c) Issue Price:

(i) The FCI purchases foodgrains from the farmers in states with surplus food production and stores it in granaries.

(ii) This is done to distribute foodgrains in the deficit areas and among the poor state of society at a price lower than the market price which is also known as issue price.                       

(d) Fair Price Shops:

(i) The food procured by the FCI is distributed through government regulated ration shops among the poorer sections of the society. This is called Public Distribution System (PDS). 

(ii) Ration shops are now present in most localities villages, towns and cities.

(iii) Ration shops are also known as fair price shops.

(iv) These fair price shops keep stocks of foodgrains, sugar and kerosene oil. Here these items are sold at a price lower than the market price.  

C) Supplies fertilizers

D) Public Distribution System

Correct option is B) 1 year

1. Meals cooked should be tasty and healthy. 

2. Children should be educated on the consequences of food wastage. 

3. Teachers should supervise the programme .

A) National Institute of Nutrition

D) The calorie intake of our body

B) Tamilnadu

Correct option is C) stunting

Correct option is A) growth

B) Right to life

D) Self Help Groups

Correct option is A) Dals

Correct option is A) 1975

Correct option is D) proteins

Correct option is B) wasting

BMI = Weight in legs/height in meters squared.

D) Anganwadis

C) Weight in kgs /height in metres/ squared

B) Export of food grains

D) All of these

C) Mid-day meal today – 20 crore children in India

A) Anthyodaya card holders – 20 kgs of foodgrains

C) Encourage crop diversification from foodgrains to commercial crops

Crop rotation: Changing the crop that Is grown on an area of land in order to protect the soil.

Water harvesting: The act of gathering water either from rains or from other sources like streams, canals, etc.

Crop diversification: Changing of the crops so that there is a great variety of crops.

The food security is ensured in India by the Government by carefully designed food security system. This system is composed of two components:
(a) Maintaining a Buffer Stock of food grains,
(b) Through the distribution of these food grains among the poorer sections of the society with the help of a Public Distribution System (PDS).

In addition to the above, the Government has launched several Poverty Alleviation Programmes (PAP) that comprise a component of food security. Some of these programmes are – Mid-Day Meals, Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY), and Food-For-Work (FFW) etc.

Two schemes launched by the governmentto provide food security to the poor are:

→Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY):This scheme was launched in December 2000. Under this scheme one crore of the poorer among the BPL families, covered by the Public Distribution System (PDS) were identified. Twenty-five kilograms of food grains were made available to each of the eligible family at a highly subsidized rate. After about two years, the quantity was enhanced from 25 kg to 35 kg. In June 2003, and August 2004, additional 50 lakh families were added to this scheme twice. In this way about 2 crore families have been brought under the AAY.

→ Food for Work (FFW):This programme was launched in November 2004 in 150 most backward districts of the country. The main objective of this scheme is to intensify the generation of supplementary wage employment. This scheme is open to all rural poor who are willing to do unskilled labour. In return of the work, the workers are supplied foodgrains or money as they like.

C) Nutritional status among adult men and women

B) Use of HYV seeds and chemical fertilisers

A) Right to Food

D) Public Distribution System

C) Food is within reach of every person

Nutrition Status: The nutrition status of children and adults judges whether the food actually consumed by them Is adequate or not or excess.

C) a consequence of diets persistently inadequate

Non-governmental organizations: The organizations that were not run by the government, but the public in key issues related to people and the environment.