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Food Security in India
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Contents
•What is Food Security
•Why Food Security
•Food Security in India
•Role of Cooperatives in Food Security
Food Security Economics
What is Food Security
Food security means availability, accessibility and affordability of food to all people at all times. Availabilit
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Accessibility
Affordability
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Food Security
Availability Accessibility Affordability
Availability Means Food production within the country, import from other countries and previous years stock.
Accessibilitymeans food is within reachof every person.
Affordability implies that an individual has enough money to buy sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet one‘s dietary needs.
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How food security affected during a calamity?
Destruction of agriculture
Decrease in production
Food shortage
Increase in price
Lack of affordability
Starvation
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Food Security in India
Since the advent of the Green Revolution in the early-’70s. India has become self-sufficient in food grains during the last thirty years because of a variety of crops grown all over the country.
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Production of food grains in India ( Million Tons)
Food Security EconomicsGovernmental measures for food security
in India
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Buffer StockPublic Distribution System
Buffer Stock is the stock of food grains,namely wheat and rice procured by thegovernment through Food Corporationof India (FCI). T
The food procured by the FCI isdistributed through governmentregulated ration shops among the poorer section of the society. This is called the public distribution system (PDS).
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Public Distribution System ( PDS )
The PDS is functioning in India through the ration shops and fair price shops. Any family with a ration card can buy the reserved portion of food grains every months from the nearest ration shops at a subsidized price.
There are three kinds of ration cards:(a) Antyodaya cards for the poorest ofthe poor; (b) BPL cards for those below poverty line; and (c) APL cards for all others.
Food Security EconomicsCurrent Status of PDS in
IndiaName of Scheme
Year of Introduction
Coverage Target Group
Latest Volume
Issue Price(Rs per kg.)
PDS Up to 1992 Universal - W-2.34R-2.89
RPDS 1992 Backward Blocks
20 kg of food grains
W-2.80R-3.77
TPDS 1997 Poor and Non poor
35 kg of food grains
BPL . W-2.50R-3.50
APL-W-4.50R-7.00
AAY 2000Poorest of the poor
35 kg of food grains
W-2.00R-3.00
APS 2000 Indigent senior
citizens
10 kg of food grains
Free
Note: W - Wheat; R - Rice; BPL - Below poverty line; APL - Above poverty lineSource: Economic Survey
Food Security EconomicsRole of cooperatives in Food
securityThe cooperatives are also playing animportant role in food security in Indiaespecially in the southern and westernparts of the country.
The cooperative societies set up shops to sell low priced goods to poor people.
Food Security EconomicsRole of cooperatives in Food
securityCooperative societies like these are ensuring the supply of quality food and food supplements throughout the country.