Food Security

Q.

Write notes on: (a) Minimum support price (b) Buffer stock (c) Issue price (d) Fair price shops -

Q. What is the benefit of the Maa Annapurna Yojna?

1. The poor families are given 35 kg of grains free of cost.
2. The needy middle class poor families of urban and rural areas are provided grain at subsidized rates.
3. The beneficiaries can buy wheat, rice, and coarse grain at high rates and fixed quantities.
4. Sugar, iodized salt, kerosene, and edible oil are provided at subsidised rates by the government to the poor families.

Q. The objective of is that every person gets nutritious food for remaining active and for healthy life and procurement of food.

1. Food distribution
2. Poverty alleviation
3. Food security bill

Q.

To solve the food problem of the country, which among the following is necessary?

1. Increased production and storage of food grains

2. Easy access of people to the food grain

3. People should have money to purchase the grains

4. All of the above

Q. From the following, identify the incorrect objective of the National Food Security Act.

1. To provide nutritious food to the pregnant and feeding women
2. To provide food security to families of non-priority households
3. It was launched to curb malnutrition
4. To provide food to families of priority households

Q. How is food security ensured in a country?

Q. Statement 1: At the national level, efforts have been taken by the government to ensure food security.
Statement 2: The Food Security Bill was implemented in 2013 by the Central Government.

1. Statement 1 is true but statement 2 is false.
2. Statement 1 is false but statement 2 is true.
3. Both statements 1 and 2 are true.
4. Both statements 1 and 2 are false.

Q. Social problems pertain to a phenomenon that is required for any society to evolve.

1. True
2. False

Q. The Food Security Bill was implemented by the Central Government in .

1. 2013
2. 2002
3. 2015

Q. When was the National Food Security Bill implemented?

1. 4 March, 2011
2. 19 November, 2014
3. 18 January, 2012
4. 5 July, 2013

Q. Under Maa Annapurna Yojna, the needy middle-class low-income families of urban and rural areas are provided grain at subsidised rates.

1. True
2. False

Q. In the year ___________ National Food Security Act was passed by the Indian Parliament.