FOOD SECURITY IN INDIA

Vocabulary

• Food Security
• Availability
• Accessibility
• Affordability
• Natural calamities
• Food – Insecure
• BPL (Below Poverty Line)
• PDS (Public Distribution System)
• Food Corporation of India (FCI)
• Minimum Support Price (MSP)
• Green Revolution (1969)
• Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY)
• Annapurna Scheme (APS)
• Rationing
• Buffer Stock
• Role of Cooperatives in food security
• Chronical hunger
• Seasonal hunger
• Issue Price
• Self Sufficiency

1) Which are the people prone to food security?

The people more prone to food insecurity are:
a) Landless people with little
b) Traditional artisans
c) Providers of traditional services
d) Urban casual laborers engaged in seasonal
e) The SC’s, ST’s and some other low class
f) People affected by natural

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