Food security in idnia economics class 9th

1. FOOD SECURITY IN INDIA
By : Gurkirat Singh

2. FOOD
SECURITY
MEANS
Availability
Accessibility
Affordability of food to
people at all times

3. Food Security is ensured in a country if :
 Enough Food is available for all the people.
 All people can afford to buy food of acceptable quality
 There is no barrier on the access to food.

4. Need of food security
 For the poor sections of the society.
 Natural disasters or calamity like earthquake
,drought,flood, tsunami.
 Widespread crop failure due to drought.

5. How drought Affects food Security
Drought Takes Place
Total production of food grains
Shortage of food in affected
areas.
Prices
Some people cannot afford to
buy food =food insecurity

6. Starvation
 If such a calamity happens over a very widespread
area or is stretched over a longer period of time it may
cause starvation.

7. Famine
 A massive starvation might take a turn of famine.
 A famine is characterised by
1. Widespread deaths.
2. Epidemics.

8. Famines And Starvation deaths in India.
There has been no major famines recently as of 2022. The
most recent and the biggest famine we had was :
 The Bengal Famine [1943]
- It killed over 1.5 to 3 million people.

9. Food insecure Groups
 Migrants.
 Landless people.
 Petty self employed workers.
 Homeless, beggars etc.
 Casual Labourers.
 SCs, STs and some section of the OBCs.

10. Hunger, Another aspect of food insecurity.
Chronic Hunger
• Inadequate diet for a long time.
• Poor people suffer from chronic hunger.
Seasonal Hunger
• During agricultural activities in rural regions and casual labour in urban areas.
• When a person is only employed for a particular season in rural areas and in
urban areas when a person is paid by daily wage and is idle for the rest of the
year.

11. India’s attempts at attaining Food Security.
Green Revolution : Food grain Production.
Highest Growth :
Punjab and Haryana
Tamilnadu and Andhra Pradesh

12. India’s Food Security System
Bufffe
rStoc
k
Public
Distribut
ion
System
Food
Security
System of
India

13. How The P.D.S Works :
Grains MSP C.I.P Distributes
Grains
Allocates Grains
Central Issue Price
Farmers
or
Producers
F.C.I
[Maintains
Buffer
Stocks]]
States
Fair Price
Shops

14. Government Schemes
 P.D.S [Initial Public Distribution System Scheme]
 RPS [Revamped Public Distribution System]
 TPDS [Targeted Public Distribution System]
Special Schemes :
 AAY [Antayodaya Anna Yojana]
 APS [Annapurna Scheme]

16. Benefits From the PDS:
 Stabilizes prices of foodgrains.
 Makes food available at affordable prices.
 By supplying food from surplus regions of the country to the deficit ones, it helps in
combating hunger and famine.
 Prices set with poor households in mind.
 Provides income security to farmers in certain regions.

17. Problems faced by P.D.S :
 Problem of hunger still exists in many parts of India.
 Food stock in granaries often above specified levels.
 Deterioration in quality of stored foodgrains if kept for long periods of time.
 High storage costs.
 Malpractices on part of P.D.S dealers :
 Diverting the grains to open market to get better margin.
 Selling poor quality grains at ration shops.
 Irregular opening of shops.
 Lower income families earning just above poverty line have to pay APL rates which
are almost equal to open market rates – Lower incentive to buy from Fair Price
Shops.