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Food security in India is ensured through self-sufficiency in food grains, a carefully designed food security system, and poverty alleviation programs. The food security system involves maintaining a buffer stock of food grains and distributing it to poorer sections through fair price shops. The buffer stock and public distribution system aim to make food available at lower prices. Groups most vulnerable to food insecurity are landless rural households and casual urban laborers.

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ABU DHABI INDIAN SCHOOL - BRANCH 1, AL WATHBA

GRADE 9 NOTES (2022-2023)


LESSON 4: FOOD SECURITY IN INDIA

1. How is food security ensured in India?

Food security is ensured in a country when the three dimensions of food security are taken care of. The
three dimensions are:

Availability of food − Presence of enough food for all the persons

Accessibility of food − Absence of barrier on access to food

Affordability of food − Capability of all persons to buy food of acceptable quality

Food security has been ensured in India because of the following factors.

(i) Self-sufficiency of food grains − India has become self-sufficient in food grains (as was its aim since
Independence) during the last thirty years. This has been because of a variety of crops grown all over the
country.

(ii) Food-security system − The availability of food grains has been ensured by the government with the
help of a carefully designed food-security system. This system involves the maintenance of a buffer
stock of food grains, and the distribution of this food among the poorer sections of the society with the
help of a public distribution system.

(iii) Implementation of several poverty-alleviation programmes having an explicit food security


component − Apart from the distribution of food through fair-price shops, the government has come up
with several poverty-alleviation programmes that enhance food security; for example, mid-day meals
and food-for-work.

(iv) Involvement of cooperatives and NGOs − In addition to the role of the government in ensuring food
security, various cooperatives and NGOs are also working intensively towards this direction. Mother
Dairy and Amul are two examples of cooperatives involved in ensuring food security.

2. Which are the people more prone to food insecurity?


Although a large section of people suffers from food and nutrition insecurity in India, the worst affected
groups are landless or land-poor households in rural areas and people employed in ill-paid occupations
and casual labourers engaged in seasonal activities in the urban areas.
3. Why is a buffer stock created by the government?

To ensure availability of food to all sections of the society the Indian government carefully designed a
food security system, which is composed of two components: (a) buffer stock and (b) public distribution
system. This is done to distribute food grains in the deficit areas and among the poorer strata of society
at a price lower than the market price.
4. Write notes on Minimum Support Price, Buffer Stock, Issue Price and Fair Price Shops.

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 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.

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