NICE

1. Bhoodan-Gramdan
• Vinoba Bhave’s Bhoodan and Gramdan campaigns attempteda
“non-violent revolution” in India’s land reform programme. These
integrated groups aimed to enact land reforms by encouraging the
landed classes to voluntarily give up a portion of their land to the
landless. Acharya Vinoba Bhave, an Indian religious icon, founded the
Bhoodan movement. While studying Sanskrit in Varanasi, he became
a fan of Mohandas K. Gandhi. Bhave broke British Wartime
regulations in 1940, at Gandhiji’s request, and spent nearly five years
in prison.
• Following Gandhi’s death, Bhave was widely regarded as his heir. In
1951, he founded the Bhoodan Movement, or land-gift activism,
since he was more interested in voluntary land reform than politics.
He travelled hundreds of kilometres in order to collect land donations
for redistribution to the landless. By 1969, it had gathered over 4
million acres (1.6 million hectares) of land for distribution.

2. Contribution of
Agriculture to the
National Economy,
Employment and
Output

3. In 2010-11 about 52% of the total workforce was employed by the
farm sector.
The share of agriculture in the GDP is declining.
Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), agricultural universities,
veterinary services and animal breeding centres, horticulture
development, research and development in the field of meteorology
and weather forecast, etc. are a few of the initiatives introduced by
the government to improve Indian agriculture.

4. INDIAN
GROWTH RATE
OF GDP AND
MAJOR
SECTORS (IN %)

5. When farmers have been facing so many
problems and land under agriculture is
decreasing, can we think of alternative
employment opportunities in the
agriculture sector?

6. • yes. There are ample opportunities in agriculture sector. Some of these are -
• Small farmers can come together to undergo cooperative farming.For eg, Amul is a
cooperative of small diary farmers. It will empower the farmers and will help them to
successfully grow and market their produce.
• They can rear cattle, poultry,pigs,etc. They provide milk, meat, hides, wool, skin, etc.
• Acquaculture ie rearing of fish and other acquatic animals for meat and for aesthetics
(acquarium).
• Sericultureie, growing silkworms.
• And at last, we need to change the way of doing agriculture. This can be done by
using technology fromhybrid seeds to efficient irrigation systems to get maximum output of
minimum land.
• Vertical farming which is the practice of growing crops in verticallystacked layers under
controlled environment. It definitely will be useful if we run short of land.

7. Food
security

8. Look at the
given poster
and describe
what it says

9. What is Food
Security?
• Food security is the measure
of an individual’s ability to
access food that is nutritious
and sufficient in quantity.
Some definitions of food
security specify that food
must also meet an
individual’s food preferences
and dietary needs for active
and healthy lifestyles.

10. Food security is a basic human right. In fact, having access to at
least an adequate amount of nutritious food could be seen as the
most basic of all human rights.
However, for hundreds of millions of people, this right is not being
met, usually for reasons entirely out of their control. In this article,
we will discuss why this is happening, the impact that food
insecurity has on those affected, and what we can do, both as
individuals and collectively,to right these wrongs.

11. Organize a debate on food security
of India, its need and efforts

12. In order to ensure
availability of food to all
sections of the society our
government carefully
designed a national food
security system
Buffer stock
Public distribution system
(PDS)

13. Buffer stock
• A buffer stock system can be defined as a
government scheme used to stabilize prices in a
volatile market. In this, stocks are bought and
stored during good harvests to disallow costs
from falling below the price levels or a target
range, and supplies are released during
harvests to prevent prices from rising above the
price levels or a target range.

14. Public distribution system(PDS)
• The public distribution system (PDS) is an Indian food security system
that was established by the Government of India under the Ministry
of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution to distribute food
and non-food items to India's poor at subsidised rates. Major
commodities distributed include staple food grains, such
as wheat, rice, sugar and essential fuels like kerosene, through a
network of fair price shops (also known as ration shops) established
in several states across the country. Food Corporation of India,
a government-owned corporation, procures and maintains the PDS.

15. Objectives of food security policy
Ensure availability of
food grains to the
common people at
affordable prize.
1
Enable the poor to
have access to food
2
Focus of the policy is
on growth in
agriculture
production and on
fixing the suport prize
3

16. Food corporation of India
(FCI) is responsible for
procuring and stocking
foodgrains, whereas
distribution is ensured by
Public distribution system
(PDS)