Tag: government measures for food security

Food security is nothing but the opportunity to gain food all along which is possible to people who have continuous work. Among the given options, workers employed in ill-paying jobs, daily wage workers, landless laborers do not get enough pay or continuous work and hence food security is seen only for call centre workers.

Food Corporation of India was set up on 14th January, 1965 to implement the following objectives of the National Food Policy:

1. Effective price support operations for safeguarding the interests of the farmers.
2. Distribution of foodgrains throughout the country for Public Distribution System.
3. Maintaining satisfactory level of operational and buffer stocks of foodgrains to ensure National Food Security.
4. Regulate market price to provide foodgrains to consumers at a reliable price.

NFWP is stand for National Food for Work Programme. This programme was launched in the year 2004 by the minister of rural development. The objective of this scheme is to give employment to Indian poors who can undertake unskilled jobs and thus also maintaining food security.  

A buffer stock scheme is an attempt to use commodity storage for the purposes of stabilising prices in an entire economy or, more commonly, an individual (commodity) market. Specifically, commodities are bought when there is a surplus in the economy, stored, and are then sold from these stores when there are economic shortages in the economy.

Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) is a Government sponsored scheme to provide highly subsidised food to millions of the poorest families. It was launched by the government on 25 December 2000 and first implemented in Rajasthan.

• Academy of Development Science has facilitated a network of NGOs for setting up grain banks in different regions.
• ADS organises training and capacity building programmes on food security for NGOs. Grain Bank are now slowly taking shape in different parts of Maharashtra.
• ADS efforts to set up the 'Grain Bank', is paying rich dividends.
• The ADS Grain Bank programme is acknowledged as a successful and innovative food security intervention.

Wheat and Rice crops are related to Green Revolution.

The minimum support price (MSP) is announced by the Government of India at the beginning of the sowing season. 

The Bengal famine of 1943 struck the Bengal Province of British India during World War II following the Japanese invasion of Burma. Approximately 3 million people died due to famine.

In 1960s the government adopted certain strategies in agriculture to make India self-sufficient in food grains:
(i) Use of HYV seeds.
(ii) Use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides.
(iii) New scientific methods of farming.
(iv) Several schemes for irrigation were undertaken to bring more land under cultivation.