Extra questions with answers.
1. What is food security?
Answer: Food security means that food is available to all people, the available food should be within the reach of every person and everybody have enough money to afford the required food items.
2. What is a famine?
Answer: A famine is a situation that arises due to the scarcity of food over a long duration of time spread over a large area resulting in the death of many people.
3. What is chronic hunger?
Answer: When people consume food less than the required amount over a long duration of time, chronic hunger is said to exist. Poor people mostly suffer from chronic hunger due to their low-income levels.
4. What is seasonal hunger?
Answer: When people cannot consume a sufficient quantity of food during a particular season or a part of the year, it is termed as seasonal hunger. People engaged in the agricultural sector mostly suffer from seasonal hunger.
5. What is the Green Revolution?
Answer: The introduction of High Yielding Variety seeds and modern farming methods like the use of irrigation systems, tractors, pesticides, fertilizers, etc in the production of foodgrains is termed as Green Revolution.
6. What is Buffer stock?
Answer: Buffer stock is the stock of foodgrains purchased by the government of India and stored by the Food Corporation of India,
7. What is the minimum support price?
Answer: Minimum Support Price is the predetermined price by the government that is given to the farmers after the harvest in exchange for the foodgrains cultivated.
8. What is the Issue price?
Answer: The issue price is the price at which the Buffer stock is distributed by the government to the people in the food deficit areas. The Issue price is less than the market price.
9. What is a Fair Price shop?
Answer: The purchased food items that are stored by the FCI is distributed to the people through government-regulated shops called Ration shops or Fair Price shops.
10. When was the National Food Security Act introduced?
Answer: The National Food Security Act was introduced in the year 2013.
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