This PSEB 9th Class Social Science Notes Economics Chapter 4 Food Security in India will help you in revision during exams.
PSEB 9th Class Social Science Notes Economics Chapter 4 Food Security in India
→ Food security: It is as essential for living as air is for breathing. It mainly means something more than getting two square meals.
→ Dimensions of Food Security:
- Availability of food
- Accessibility of food
- Affordability of food.
→ Availability: Availability of food means there should be food production within the country.
→ Accessibility: Accessibility of food means that a sufficient quantity of food should be within the reach of people.
→ Affordability of Food: It means that a person has enough money to buy sufficient .food.
→ Buffer Stock: It is the stock of foodgrains, namely wheat and rice, procured by the government through the Food Corporation of India. (FCI)
→ Calamity: A greater misfortune or. disaster, like a flood or serious injury, grievous affliction, adversity, misery; the calamity of war.
→ Green Revolution: A large increase in crop production in developing countries was achieved by the use of artificial fertilizers, pesticides, and HYV.
→ Self Sufficiency: It is the state of not requiring any aid, support or interaction for survival, It is a type of personal or collective autonomy.
→ Fair Price Shops: Fair price stops are distribution channels of Govt, making available essential commodities like rice, kerosene, wheat, etc to the common man at controlled prices.
→ Public Distribution System: It is a govt, sponsored chain of shops, entrusted with the work of distributing basic food and non-food commodities to the needy sections of the society at very cheap prices.
→ Natural Disasters: A natural event such as flood, earthquake, or hurricane that causes great damage or loss of life.
→ Ration Card: An official document entitling the holder to a ration of food, clothes, or other goods.
→ Revamped Public Distribution System: It is govt, programme that started in 1992.
→ Minimum Support Price: It is a form of market intervention by the Govt, to agricultural producers against any shortfall in farm prices.
→ Issue Price: The price at which the procured buffer stock foodgrains are sold through the PPS.
→ Chronic Hunger: It is a consequence of having a persistently inadequate diet in terms of quantity and quality.
→ Seasonal Hunger: It is related to cycles of food production.
→ Need for Food Security: It is due to poverty and higher prices, qualitative factor, and quantitative factor.
→ Cooperative: It is a form of business organization in which members voluntarily form a society for producing, procuring, and marketing goods and services at rib profit no loss basis to their members.