CBSE Class 9 Social Science Food Security in India MCQs Set 01

Answer: (b) availability, accessibility and affordability of food to all people at all times

Explanation:
1. Food security means that food is available, within reach and affordable for everyone at all times.

Teacher's Note:
1. Remember the three words availability, accessibility and affordability.
2. A country is food secure only when all three conditions are met together.

Answer: (a) Profitability of farming

Explanation:
1. The three dimensions are availability, accessibility and affordability. Profitability of farming is not one of them.

Teacher's Note:
1. Learn the three A-words as a set.
2. Farmers' profit is linked to MSP, but it is not a dimension of food security.

Answer: (d) food production within the country, food imports and the previous year's stock stored in government granaries

Explanation:
1. Availability covers production within the country, imports and stocks kept in government granaries from earlier years.

Teacher's Note:
1. Availability is about supply at the national level.
2. Accessibility and affordability are about individuals.

Answer: (c) an individual has enough money to buy sufficient, safe and nutritious food

Explanation:
1. Affordability means a person has enough money to buy food that meets the dietary needs.

Teacher's Note:
1. Affordability is linked to income.
2. Even if food is available, a poor household may be unable to buy it.

Answer: (b) 1027 million in 2001

Explanation:
1. As per the chapter, the population rose from 361 million (1951) to 1027 million (2001), which increases the need for food security.

Teacher's Note:
1. Rapid population growth means more mouths to feed.
2. Use this fact when asked 'Why food security?'

Answer: (a) a reduction in net sown area under cereals, millets and pulses

Explanation:
1. When farmers grow more cash crops, the area under cereals, millets and pulses falls, reducing food availability.

Teacher's Note:
1. Cash crops do not feed the household directly.
2. Link this with changing cropping patterns.

Answer: (d) push up prices and earn extraordinary profit

Explanation:
1. Hoarding and black marketing create shortage so that traders can raise prices and make large profits.

Teacher's Note:
1. Hoarding is an unfair trade practice.
2. It makes food unaffordable for the poor.

Answer: (c) widespread deaths due to starvation and epidemics

Explanation:
1. A famine involves widespread deaths from starvation and from epidemics caused by contaminated water or decaying food, together with weakened resistance.

Teacher's Note:
1. Famine is the extreme result of long-lasting food shortage.
2. The Bengal Famine of the 1940s is the best-known example.

Answer: (b) Landless people with little or no land to depend upon

Explanation:
1. Landless people, traditional artisans, petty self-employed workers and destitutes are the worst affected.

Teacher's Note:
1. Those with no land have no assured source of food or income.
2. Urban casual labourers face similar problems.

Answer: (a) diets persistently inadequate in quantity and/or quality

Explanation:
1. Chronic hunger results from diets that are inadequate for a long time, mostly because of very low income.

Teacher's Note:
1. Chronic means long-lasting.
2. The poor suffer from it because they cannot afford enough food.

Answer: (d) Seasonal

Explanation:
1. Seasonal hunger arises from the seasonal nature of farming and casual labour, when there is less work in some months.

Teacher's Note:
1. Think of the rainy season for construction labour.
2. Seasonal hunger exists when work is not available for the whole year.

Answer: (c) low income

Explanation:
1. Poor people have very low income, so they cannot buy enough food even for survival.

Teacher's Note:
1. Income decides how much food a family can buy.
2. Hunger also pushes people deeper into poverty.

Answer: (b) lack of work

Explanation:
1. Seasonal hunger exists in rural areas and urban casual labour when people cannot get work during certain parts of the year.

Teacher's Note:
1. Seasonal means linked to a time of year.
2. Compare this with the cause of chronic hunger, which is low income.

Answer: (a) Three

Explanation:
1. The three kinds are Antyodaya cards, BPL cards and APL cards.

Teacher's Note:
1. Remember Antyodaya, BPL and APL.
2. Each card gives access to a different level of subsidy.

Answer: (d) 1975

Explanation:
1. ICDS was introduced in 1975 on an experimental basis, after high poverty levels were reported in the mid-1970s.

Teacher's Note:
1. ICDS looks after the nutrition of young children and mothers.
2. Food for Work followed a couple of years later.

Answer: (c) 1977-78

Explanation:
1. The Food for Work programme was introduced in 1977-78 as one of the food intervention programmes.

Teacher's Note:
1. Arrange the dates in order: PDS strengthened, ICDS 1975, Food for Work 1977-78.
2. Do not confuse it with the National Food for Work Programme of 2004.

Answer: (b) below the poverty line

Explanation:
1. BPL cards are for families below the poverty line, Antyodaya cards for the poorest of the poor and APL cards for all others.

Teacher's Note:
1. BPL stands for Below Poverty Line.
2. APL stands for Above Poverty Line.

Answer: (a) December 2000

Explanation:
1. AAY was launched in December 2000 for the poorest of the poor among BPL families.

Teacher's Note:
1. Remember 'Antyodaya' means the uplift of the last person.
2. The scheme was expanded in 2003 and 2004.

Answer: (d) procured by the government through the Food Corporation of India

Explanation:
1. The FCI buys wheat and rice from farmers in surplus states and keeps them as buffer stock in granaries.

Teacher's Note:
1. Buffer stock helps during bad weather or calamities.
2. It is bought at the Minimum Support Price.

Answer: (c) a pre-announced price paid to farmers for their crops

Explanation:
1. The government announces the MSP every year before the sowing season to encourage farmers to raise production.

Teacher's Note:
1. MSP gives farmers an assured income.
2. Do not confuse it with the Issue Price.

Answer: (b) Issue Price

Explanation:
1. The buffer stock is sold at a price lower than the market price known as the Issue Price.

Teacher's Note:
1. Issue Price is what the consumer pays at the ration shop.
2. MSP is what the farmer receives.

Answer: (a) Fair Price Shops

Explanation:
1. Ration shops, or Fair Price Shops, stock foodgrains, sugar and kerosene oil and sell them below the market price.

Teacher's Note:
1. About 4.6 lakh such shops exist in the country.
2. They are the last link of the public distribution system.

Answer: (d) About 4.6 lakh

Explanation:
1. The chapter states that there are about 4.6 lakh ration shops all over the country.

Teacher's Note:
1. Ration shops are present in most villages, towns and cities.
2. Take care of lakh and crore.

Answer: (c) Bengal Famine

Explanation:
1. Rationing was introduced in the 1940s in the background of the Bengal Famine and was revived in the 1960s.

Teacher's Note:
1. The Bengal Famine caused millions of deaths.
2. Rationing was revived before the Green Revolution.

Answer: (b) the 150 most backward districts

Explanation:
1. It was launched to generate supplementary wage employment in the 150 most backward districts.

Teacher's Note:
1. Workers are paid with foodgrains.
2. The Collector is the nodal officer.