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    Food security means that food is available, accessible, and affordable for all people at all times. However, in India certain groups remain food insecure including the poor, landless farmers, casual laborers, and pregnant and nursing mothers. Seasonal hunger occurs when agricultural work is unavailable, affecting both rural and urban areas. India has developed a food security system including buffer stocks, public distribution systems, and intervention programs in order to achieve self-sufficiency in food grains and ensure access to food for the most vulnerable populations, though some paradoxically still experience starvation despite food stockpiles.

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    Food security means that food is available, accessible, and affordable for all people at all times. However, in India certain groups remain food insecure including the poor, landless farmers, casual laborers, and pregnant and nursing mothers. Seasonal hunger occurs when agricultural work is unavailable, affecting both rural and urban areas. India has developed a food security system including buffer stocks, public distribution systems, and intervention programs in order to achieve self-sufficiency in food grains and ensure access to food for the most vulnerable populations, though some paradoxically still experience starvation despite food stockpiles.

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    Food security means that food is available, accessible, and affordable for all people at all times. However, in India certain groups remain food insecure including the poor, landless farmers, casual laborers, and pregnant and nursing mothers. Seasonal hunger occurs when agricultural work is unavailable, affecting both rural and urban areas. India has developed a food security system including buffer stocks, public distribution systems, and intervention programs in order to achieve self-sufficiency in food grains and ensure access to food for the most vulnerable populations, though some paradoxically still experience starvation despite food stockpiles.

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    Chapter-4 Economics

    Food Security in India

    Food security means availability, accessibility and affordability of food to all people at all times.
    • FOOD SECURITY: The poorest section of the society remains food insecure all the times.
    People above poverty line might also feel food insecure in times of natural calamity like
    earthquake, drought, flood, tsunami, etc.
    FOOD-INSECURE: In rural areas, the worst affected people are: landless and small farmers,
    traditional artisans (weavers, potters, blacksmith etc.) providers of services (e.g. barbers,
    washermen etc), petty self-employed workers and destitute. In the urban areas, persons
    employed in ill-paid occupations and casual labourers are food insecure.
    Large proportion of pregnant and nursing mothers and children under the age of 5 years
    constitute an important segment of the food insecure population.
    • Hunger: Hunger has chronic and seasonal dimensions. Poor people suffer from chronic
    hunger and are food insecure all the times. Seasonal hunger is caused by the seasonal nature
    of agricultural activities in rural areas. In urban areas, seasonal hunger occurs because of the
    casual type of work. Thus, seasonal hunger exists when people are unable to get work
    for the whole year.
    • Need for self-sufficiency in food grains. Our government since Independence realised the
    need to attain self-sufficiency in food grains because India experienced acute shortage of
    food grains after partition of the country in 1947. The need for self-sufficiency arises from
    the following:
    (a) to feed rising population
    (b) to fight against droughts, floods, cyclone, etc.
    (c) to reduce import of food grains
    (d) to control prices of food grains.
    • Food Security System in India: Since the advent of the Green Revolution in the 1960s the
    country has avoided famine, even during adverse weather conditions. India has become self-
    sufficient in food grains during the last 30 years because of the variety of crops grown all
    over the country. Also, we have developed a food security system.
    • Buffer Stock: Buffer stock is the stock of food grains (wheat and rice) procured by the
    government through the Food Corporation of India (FCI). The FCI purchases wheat and rice
    for the government from the farmers of surplus states at pre-announced prices. This price is
    called ‘minimum support price’.
    • Public Distribution System (PDS): PDS refers to a system through which the food procured
    by the FCI is distributed among the poor through government regulated ration shops. The
    consumers are issued ration cards.
    • Kinds of Ration Cards. There are three kinds of ration cards:
    (a) Antyodaya cards for the poorest of the poor,
    (b) BPL cards for those below poverty line and,
    (c) APL cards for those above poverty line.
    • Three Important Food Intervention Programmes:
    In the wake of high incidence of poverty levels in mid-1970s, three important food
    intervention programmes were introduced:
    (a) Public Distribution System (in existence earlier)
    (b) Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) in 1975
    (c) Food for work in 1977-78.
    In 2000, two special schemes were launched viz. Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) and the
    Annapurna scheme (APS) with special target groups of the poorest of the poor and indigent
    senior citizens, respectively.
    • Excessive Food Stocks: In July 2002, the stock of wheat and rice with FCI was 63 million
    tonnes which was much more than the minimum buffer norms of 24.3 million tonnes. The
    stock reduced thereafter but always remained higher than the buffer norms.
    • Paradox of Excess Stocks and Starvation: In fact, India has experienced a paradoxical
    situation in recent years. While the granaries (godowns) of the government are overflowing
    with excess stocks of food, we also find people without food. The main reason for this
    unfortunate situation is that many poor families do not have enough money or income to buy
    food.

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