Food and food resources are essential for life. Plants and animals are the two main natural sources of food. Plants serve as food resources for herbivores and omnivores, with India's main agricultural products being cereals, pulses, spices, beverages, vegetables, and fruits. Animals and birds are a major food source for carnivores and omnivores, providing meat, eggs, milk, honey, and oils. However, growing problems with world food supplies exist due to increasing population, wealth, and environmental degradation combined with insufficient growth in irrigation and fertilizer.

1. Presented by:Nirmaljeet Singh
(9592577746)

2. Food and Food Resources
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 Food :- Materials, usually of plant or animal origin,
that contain or consist of essential body nutrients.
 Food Resources :-Resources that are used as food, or
provide food for organisms are called food
resources.

3. Food Resources
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We obtain food from mainly two types of natural sources :
1. Plants
2. Animals

4. PLANTS AS FOOD
RESOURCES
 for herbivores and
 Plants serve as food resources
omnivores.
 In India, the main source of food is agriculture.
 Main kinds of agricultural products :
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Cereals
Pulses
Spices
Beverages
Vegetables
Fruits

5. Cereals
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Spices
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Fruits
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Pulses
Beverages
Vegetables
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6. ANIMALS & BIRDS AS FOOD
RESOURCES
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Animals and birds are a huge source of food for
many organisms who are carnivores and
omnivores. They are of the following origin :
• Animal Meat
• Bird Meat
• Eggs
• Other organic items like oils

7. Animal Meat and bird
meat
 Animals and birds are killed and
their flesh is consumed by other
animals as food.
 Their consumption has various
rituals and traditions in various
cultures across the world.
 Fish is a very important source
of food too. It is very nutritious and
popular.

8. Eggs and other bird/animal
products
 Eggs are very nutritious and a very viable
source of food.
 Milk is an animal product that is very
nutritious and widely accepted.
 Honey is the product of nectar collected by
honey bees from flowers.
 Certain animals also give things like oils,
that has nutritional value. For instance, cod
liver oil from fishes.

9. World Food Problems
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Reasons for problems:
 Population growth
 Increasing affluence
 Degradation and loss
of cropland
 Little growth in
irrigation
 Decline in global
fertilizer