TS 10th Class Social Study Material 10th Lesson Food Security

Telangana SCERT 10th Class Social Study Material Pdf Telangana 10th Lesson Food Security Textbook Questions and Answers.

TS 10th Class Social 10th Lesson Questions and Answers – Food Security

Question 1.
Suppose that the foodgrain production has been affected in a particular year, because of a natural calamity. In what ways can the government ensure higher availability of food grains for the year?
Answer:
Large amount of food stocks including some buffer stock is maintained by government agencies like FCI. These are the primary source from where the bulk of the food is collected on instructions of the government by the local administration for use amongst the affected population. It may be financed by either central or state government or partly by both.

Question 2.
Use an imaginary example from your context to describe the relationship between underweight and access to food.
Answer:
We have conducted our first survey ¡n our school. Out of 480 children, 43% are underweight. We have enquired about their family conditions. Many of them belong to the lower-income group. They eat more rice and less vegetables. They do not take milk or any fruits.

Then we have conducted another survey in a private school. All the students there belong to the middle-income and higher-income groups. Only 10% of children are underweight. They have some medical problems also. They eat less rice, more vegetables. They take milk twice a day and fruits/ fruit juices daily. This is the relationship between underweight and access to food.

Question 3.
Analyse a week’s food habits of your family. Create a table to explain nutrition elements Included in It.
Answer:

  • Rice and redgrams – Monday
  • Rice and brinjal, eggs. Tuesday
  • Rice and potato, fruits. Wednesday
  • Rice and leafy vegetables – Thursday
  • Rice and cauliflower – Friday
  • Rice and redgrams, ragi malt – Saturday
  • Rice and chicken – Sunday
Day Food Nutritious elements
1. Monday Rice and redgrams → Carbohydrates like rice provide energy.
→ Redgrams provide growth and regeneration of body tissues.
2. Tuesday Rice and brinjal, eggs → Growth and regeneration of body eggs tissues.
3. Wednesday Rice and potato, → Provide protection and working of fruits vital systems of the body.
4. Thursday

 

Rice and leafy → Provide protection and working of vegetable’s vital systems of the body.
5. Friday Rice and cauliflower → Iron and blood formation Provides energy
6. Saturday Rice and redgrams and ragi malt → Iron and blood formation.
→ Growth and regeneration of body tissues.
7. Sunday Rice and chicken Provides proteins which help growth and regeneration of body tissues.

Question 4.
Describe the relationship between Increase In food production and food security.
Answer:
Producing sufficient amounts of food grains is an important requirement of food security. In order to increase the per hectare yield of a crop, necessary inputs have to provided in a dubious manner. One way is to expand Irrigation but use water in a manner so that this vital resource is shared and made available to all.

Planting drought-resistant crops as per the local conditions, water harvesting, and crop rotation are therefore used to raise production on a given piece of land It is also important to ensure that soil and other natural resources are not damaged or depleted in the process.

TS 10th Class Social Study Material 10th Lesson Food Security

Question 5.
Give reasons to argue for the following statement “Public Distribution System can ensure better food security for people”.
(OR)
Central and State Governments purchase one-third of food grains from farmers. Through different programmes, these food grains are distributed to people Do you think that the public distribution system managed by the government is providing proper food security? Express your opinion In an elaborate manner.
Answer:
It is a joint responsibility of central government, state government, and union territory administration to ensure the smooth functioning of the PDS. While the responsibility of central government is to procure. store and transport it from purchase points to central godowns, the responsibility of state government and union temporary administrations is to lilt these commodities from the central godowns and distribute them to consumers through the network of fair price shops.

FCI procures and distributes food grains, to provide subsidized food to the poor to mitigate regional inequalities through moving the surplus food to deficit areas and to stabilise agricultural prices.

The universal coverage of PDS was replaced by Targeted Real Public Distribution System in 1997 in order to achieve the objective of food security through sale of foodgrains to API. householders at economic cost and confirming the food subsidy bill toward the identified BPL families whose number crossed 97 million families in 2007.

Question 6.
Make similar posters about food security.
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Answer:
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Question 7.
Read the last para of text page 138 Le; “Studies indicate for access”, and write your opinion. Studies indicate that Southern states of India have a good record in public distribution systems. Notably, these are the states that have followed a universal PDS system which means that low-cost foodgrains would be available to all, This is in contrast to other states wl-ere poor families have been identified and foodgrains are sold to at different prices to poor and non-poor. Even among the poor, the very poor have different entitlements or guarantees for access.
Answer:
Yes, I think the statement is true. The figures reveal that the southern states are fully utilizing the POS when compared to the northern states, The poor and the very poor are also receiving food grains in different ratios according to their economic status.

Question 8.
Locate the following in the map of India.
i) Karnataka
ii) Odisha
iii) Gujarat
iv) Maharashtra
v) Madhya Pradesh
vi) West Bengal
vii) Chattisgarh
viii) Telangana
ix) Uttar Pradesh
x) Punjab
Answer:
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Project

Question 1.
Read the following poem, Aai. Make a drawing for the poem. Collect from your elders their experiences on food shortage. Aai (Mother)

I have seen you turning back the tide of tears trying to ignore your stomach’s growl Suffering parched throat and lips
Building a dam on a lake…I have seen yousitting in front of the stoveburning your very bones
to make coarse bread and a little something to feed everybody, but half-feed yourself so there’d be a bit in the morning…

I have seen you

washing clothes and cleaning pots in different households

rejecting the scraps of food offered with pride…

Answer:
Experience from the elder person:” In olden days, there were no marriage halls or function halls. There was no catering orders for food. All celebrations took place before the houses only. Temporary setups would be there. Many relatives come and they only participate in cooking and preparation of all food items. Now everyone orders for food from caterers. Estimations may not suit to the food. More food is wasted nowadays. A number of items are also many.

Spice Is also increased. It is also affecting the health. Different types of flavours are being used. Instead of natural food, we are using food of artificial flavors. In olden days, food was prepared based on the relative’s number present there. Food items are also less and tasty with natural.

Many of the villagers, artisans, dependents on agriculture, and people of different castes participate in the functions. Many people now have no food. Much food is wasted nowadays. It is to be avoided.
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Items also are to be reduced. Even in the month of January, they are offering Ice Cream in such chilling atmosphere. This one exarrçfe is enough to understand how the present scenario is moving anti humane.”

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Question 2.
Collect Information from your home and neIghbourIng families about millets consumption and analyse it.
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Answer:
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TS 10th Class Social 10th Lesson Food Security Intext Questions

Page No. 133

Question 1.
Observe the following graph and fill in the blanks.
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The foodgrains production has grown over the period 1970-71 to (i) Paddy production increased from about 40 million tonnes In 1970-71 to about (ii) tonnes in 2010-11 Another important food crop that witnessed rapid increase in production during this 40 year period was (iii) Compared to paddy and wheat the production of (iv) did not increase during 1970-2011. This could be due to (v).
Answer:
(i) 2010 -11
(ii) 96 million
(iii) wheat
(iv) jowar
(v) dryland agriculture

Question 2.
Read again the section on “Land and other natural resources” In chapter 8. What are the possible ways of Increasing production of crops from land?
Answer:
The possible ways of Increasing production of crops from land:

  1. Mechanization
  2. High-yield varieties, which were the basis of the Green religion.
  3. Fertilizers
  4. Herbicides
  5. Increased plant density
  6. Growing three different crops In a year due to the well-developed irrigation system.
  7. Electric tube wells could irrigate much larger areas of land easily.

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Question 3.
Describe the per hectare yield of paddy and wheat by filling the blanks In the following passage. Two crops (i) and (ii) always had low yields when compared with paddy and wheat. Yet both these crops have shown a slow increase in yield in recent years.
Answer:
(i) jowar
(ii) oil seeds
Paddy – 2250 kgs per hectare
Wheat – 3000 kgs per hectare

Question 4.
Why should attention be given to increase the yield of jowar? Discuss.
Answer:
Aher rice and wheat jowar is a third important crop in terms of area and production. Paddy and Wheat together occupy 50% of the gross cropped area of the country. The graph clearly indicates that the remaining food crops including jowar also are having a very low yield level. Much attention has not been paid to increase their productivity.

This explains the present shortage of pulses In the country. So attention should be given to increase the yield of jowar.

Question 5.
What factors have contributed to the Increase In the growth of paddy and wheat yields over a long period?
Answer:

  1. Usage of fertilizers
  2. Green revolution
  3. High-yielding varieties
  4. Modern technology in agriculture, etc.

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Question 6.
Complete the following table.
Per Person availability of food grains
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Answer:
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Question 7.
Based on your calculations, fill in the blanks:
The per-person availability of food grains (i) (increased/decreased) between 1971 and 1991 but was (ii) (lower/higher) in 2011. This happened despite a slowdown in population growth in the recent decades. In the future, the government must ensure higher availability through (iii).
Answer:
i) increased
ii) lower
iii) sellingtroni its existing stocks.

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Page No. 137

Question 8.
Underline words and sentences that deal with agricultural diversification and explain why are these essential for Indian farmers.
Answer:
Water developmenttechnologycash cropsvegetablesdairyingsecond crop –  a plan and government effort.

Diversification means a major proportion of the increasing labour force in the agricultural sector needs to find alternate employment opportunities in other non-farm sectors.

Diversification towards new areas is necessary to reduce the risk from the agriculture sector and to provide sustainable livelihood options to rural people. It is an emerging challenge in the context of oral development. So these are essential for Indian farmers.

Question 9.
Write a description et agricultural diversification for your own village or any village that you know about.
Answer:
In our area, there is one village named Kalcharam’. In the village, the farms are small holdings. But the farmers are earning good profits. They are cultivating sugarcane, paddy, and vegetables. etc. and earning a good income, They are rearing cattle also In a remarkable way. So the village is developed when compared to other villages.

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Question 10.
Recall the discussion on Public Distribution System in Class VIII. How Is PDS related to food security of the people in the country?
Answer:

  1. PDS has played a crucial role in reaching food to everyone both in the rural and urban areas.
  2. Around 1997 government decided that ration shops should cater mainly to the poor.
  3. Governments buy food grains from tanners and supply these to the ration shops.
  4. Ration shoos keep stocks of foodgrains and these items are then sold to people.
  5. Prices at the ration shops are meant to be lower than the prices in the market.
  6. The government is trying to provide food to all.
  7. The government stakes a lot et amount in purchasing food from farmers and wholesalers and selling them at subsidized prices.
  8. Thus. POS is tt,rTvlng for food security of the people in the country.

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Question 11.
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Fill in the blanks.
For all India, ……………………. percent of peoples use PDS. This means nearly ……………….. are yet to benefit from PDS. In states such as ……………..,…………….,……………….., only about one-fourth or less percent of total households use PDS in 2011-12. Why this happens? Discuss in the class.
Answer:
44.5%, Punjab, Rajasthan, Gujarat In three states. 25% or less the households take rice from public distribution system, It is meant for below-poverty-line households. The households who take rice from ration shops are not actually the poor. It is a fact that the tice purchased from these ration shops Is sold in open market.

Seeding of Aadhar Is a problem. Some people have no Aadhar cards. One nation, one ration is being implemented. Low-quality rice is one other reason. A few people having ration cards have no Aadhar cards and those who have Aadhar Cards have no ration cards.

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Question 12.
How can an effective anganwadi center deal with such a situation for a locality? Discuss.
Answer:
Anganwadi centers are established in every village. To improve the nutritional and health status of children below the age of six years – is one of the objectives of ICDS, The government supplies food to the children through these Anganwadi centers So I think an effective Anganwadi center can deal with such a situation for a locality.

Question 13.
Fill in the table.
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Answer:
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Question 14.
What overall conclusions can you draw from these statistics? Write a paragraph.
Answer:
Malnutrition Is more common in India. One in every three malnourished children in the world lives in India, Malnutrition limits development and the capacity to learn. It also costs lives: about 50% of all childhood deaths are attributed to malnutrition.

In India, around 46°o of all children below the age of 3 are too small for their age. 45% are underweight and at least 21% are wasted. Many of these are severely malnourished. Malnutrition in early childhood has serious, long-term Consequences.

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