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Why Food Security Is an Exam Favourite
Food security means that all people, at all times, have enough safe and nutritious food. The FAO describes it through availability, access, utilisation and stability. India shifted from the 1943 Bengal famine and imports in the 1960s to being a net food exporter, yet hunger and malnutrition remain. So the state runs a three-part machine. First, it announces a guaranteed price to farmers, the Minimum Support Price. Second, a state agency, the Food Corporation of India, buys grain at that price and stores it as buffer stock. Third, the Public Distribution System sells part of that grain to poor households at a very low price through ration shops. A law, the National Food Security Act 2013, turned this from a welfare scheme into a legal right. Follow one sack of wheat through these three steps and almost every question on the topic becomes simple.
1. Under the NFSA 2013, up to what share of the rural population is covered?
2. Which body recommends the Minimum Support Price for crops?
3. In which year was the Food Corporation of India set up?
4. How much foodgrain does the Antyodaya Anna Yojana provide per household per month?
5. The price that sugar mills must pay to sugarcane farmers is called the:
6. The price at which grain is released from FCI godowns for the ration system is the:
7. Which agency mainly maintains the buffer stock of foodgrains in India?
8. Under the NFSA 2013, what is the monthly foodgrain entitlement of a person in a priority household?