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Food Security in India — Social Studies STD 9 — Question

CBSE BoardEnglish MediumSTD 9Social StudiesFood Security in India3 Marks
Question
Why does every government need to maintain a buffer stock and how does it help?
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Answer

  1. The government maintains buffer food stock in silos to provide food grain in case of food shortage due to disaster or natural calamity.
  2. The government maintains a buffer stock because the grains are totally considered with plenty of feed to the country.
  3. This deserves the shortfall in production and usually happens due to natural calamity like monsoon failure.
  4. The government has to take steps for maintaining buffer of foods grains and provide food to people.

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