Tag: geography

The cooperatives societies set up shops to sell low priced goods to poor people. In Tamil Nadu, around 94% shops are run by the cooperatives.

Amul is the success story of cooperatives in milk and milk products from Gujarat. It has brought White Revolution in India.

Mother Dairy is making strides in provision of milk and vegetables to the consumers at controlled rates which is decided by Delhi Government.

Public Distribution System (PDS) is an Indian food security system. Established by the Government of India, it distributes subsidized food and non-food items to the poor. This scheme was launched in India on June 1947. Food security means availability, accessibility and affordability of food to all people at all times.

Major commodities distributed under public distribution system include staple food grains, such as wheat, rice, sugar, and kerosene, through a network of fair price shops. Food Corporation of India, a Government-owned corporation, procures foodgrains and maintains the PDS.

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.