10th Social Science - Book Back Answers - Economics Unit 3

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Tamil Nadu Board 10th Standard Social Science - Economics Unit 3: Book Back Answers and Solutions

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2 Mark Questions: Answer briefly
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Unit 3: Food Security and Nutrition

I. Choose the correct answer.

1. Buffer stock is the stock of food grains, namely wheat and rice, procured by the government through the _____.
a) FCI
b) Consumer Cooperatives
c) ICICI
d) IFCI
Answer Key:
a) FCI

2. Which is correct?
i) HYV–High Yielding Varieties
ii) MSP–Minimum Support Price
iii) PDS–Public Distribution System
iv) FCI–Food Corporation of India
a) i and ii are correct
b) iii and iv are correct
c) ii and iii are correct
d) all are correct
Answer Key:
d) all are correct

3. _____ extended assistance through its Public Law 480.
a) United States of America
b) India
c) Singapore
d) UK
Answer Key:
a) United States of America

4. _____ revolution was born in India paving way for self - sufficiency in food grain production.
a) Blue Revolution
b) White Revolution
c) Green Revolution
d) Grey Revolution
Answer Key:
c) Green Revolution

5. _____ is the only state in India to adopt universal PDS.
a) Kerala
b) Andhra Pradesh
c) Tamil Nadu
d) Karnataka
Answer Key:
c) Tamil Nadu

6. _____ is the process of providing or obtaining the food necessary for health and growth.
a) Health
b) Nutrition
c) Sanitation
d) Security
Answer Key:
b) Nutrition

II. Fill in the blanks.

1. _____ is an important indicator of nutrition deficiency.
2. In the year _____, National Food Security Act was passed by the Indian Parliament.
3. _____ play an important role in the supply of quality goods at reasonable cost to common people.
Answer Key:
1. Under weight / Anaemic
2. 2013
3. Consumer cooperatives

III. Match the following.

1	Consumer cooperatives	subsidized rates
2	Public Distribution System	2013
3	UNDP goods	supply of quality
4	National Food Security Act	United Nations Development Programme

Answer Key:

1	Consumer cooperatives	supply of quality
2	Public Distribution System	subsidized rates
3	UNDP goods	United Nations Development Programme
4	National Food Security Act	2013

IV. Assertion and Reason.

1. Assertion (A) : Purchasing power increases, price decreases and vice versa.
Reason (R) : The production of goods decline, the price of goods increases and then the purchasing power is affected.
a) A is correct, R is false
b) Both A and R are false statements
c) A is correct but R is not a correct explanation
d) A is correct, R is the correct explanation of A
Answer Key:
d) A is correct, R is the correct explanation of A

V. Answer in short.

1. Define food security according to FAO.
Answer Key:
1. According to FAO, ‘Food Security exists when all people have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food at all times.
2. It should meet their dietary needs for a healthy life.”

2. What are the three basic components of food and nutrition security?
Answer Key:
The three basic components of food and nutrition security are availability:
Ÿ1. Availability of food
2. Access to food
3. Absorption of food.

3. What is the role of FCI in Green Revolution?
Answer Key:
1. Green Revolution paved the way for self - sufficiency in food grain production.
2. FCI - Food Corporation of India procures the grains. Storage godowns are built to store buffer stocks to be distributed all through the year.
3. The farmers will get an assured price by selling their produce in the FCI.

4. What are the effects of Green Revolution?
Answer Key:
1. As a result of Green Revolution, production of food grains like rice and wheat increased.
2. India has attained self sufficiency in food grain production.
3. The increase in food grain production led to technological inventions in the dairy poultry and fisheries sectors.
4. It resulted in eight fold increase in milk production and 40 fold increase in fish production.

5. Write some of the nutrition programmes in Tamil Nadu.
Answer Key:
1. Mid - day meal Programme.
2. Tamil Nadu Integrated Nutrition Programme.
3. Puratchi Thalaivar MGR Nutritious meal programme.
4. Pradhan Manthri Gramodaya Yojana Scheme. (PMGYS)

VI. Answer in detail.

1. Elucidate why the Green Revolution was born.
Answer Key:
1. After independence, India adopted Planned Development model with focus on Agriculture and Industries.
2. It has to depend on food grain import due to recurrent droughts.
3. But Foreign exchange reserves could not permit imports and open market purchases.
4. USA assisted India with Public Law 480 (PL 480) scheme during the 1960’s.
5. The American administration and Philanthropic organisations like Ford Foundation formulated plans to increase food production using High Yielding Varieties of wheat and rice.
6. The programme was extended to larger areas as the results were promising.
7. The Green Revolution paved way for self - sufficiency in food grains production.
(Especially in Rice and Wheat Production)

2. Explain Minimum Support Price.
Answer Key:
1. Minimum Support Price (MSP) is fixed by an expert group for a particular crop by considering the various costs of production.
2. Announcing the MSP, State opens procurement centres.
3. The Farmers are free to sell their produce in open market if they get better price for their crop.
4. If the open market price is less than the MSP, the farmers are assured of the minimum price by selling to FCI
5. MSP is announced at the beginning of the season.
6. The FCI procures food grains all through the year.
7. FCI builds storage godowns to store buffer stock to distribute all through the year.

3. Elaborate the Public Distribution System.
Answer Key:
1. Tamil Nadu has adopted universal Public Distribution System (PDS) while other states have targeted PDS.
2. In TN, all the family card holders are entitled to supply of grains.
3. In the targetted PDS, beneficiaries are selected based on certain creteria.
4. Both Union and State government subsidise the supplies through PDS.
5. The level and Quantum of subsidy varies across the states.
6. Indian Parliament has passed the NFSA National Food Security Act in 2013.
7. It covers 50% urban households and 75% rural households.
8. These households are known as priority households identified based on a set of criteria.
9. In TamilNadu rice is supplied free of cost to all card holders.

4. What are the factors affecting the purchasing power and explain them.
Answer Key:

Factors affecting the purchasing power :
Over population:
1. The rate of growth of population in India is 1.7 per 1000.
2. Large population leads to increase in demand.
3. When Supply is not equal to the demand, the normal price level will go higher.
4. It affects the purchasing power, especially among the rural population.

Rise in prices of essential goods:
1. There has been a constant growth of GDP and growth opportunities in the economy, but prices of essential goods have been steadily increasing.
2. Continuous price rise erodes the purchasing power of the poor.

Demand for goods:
When demand for goods increases the prices increase affecting the purchasing power.

Price of goods affects the value of currency:
When the Price increases the purchasing powers decreases and finally the value of currency decreases.

Production and Supply of goods:
1. When the production and supply of goods decline, the prices of goods increase.
2. Then purchasing power is affected.

Poverty and Inequality:
1. In the Indian economy there exists a huge economic disparity.
2. Poverty and unequal distribution of wealth affects purchasing power.

5. What are the main objectives of the new Agricultural Policy?
Answer Key:

Raising the productivity of inputs:
1. Improving the productivity of inputs is an important aspect of India’s Agricultural policy.
2. HYV seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, irrigation projects etc.

Raising value - added per hectare:
The policy aims at increasing the per - hectare value - added by raising the productivity in agriculture of small holdings.

Protecting the interests of poor farmers:
The policy proposes to protect the interests of the poor farmers by abolishing intermediaries through land reforms, credit support and such measures.

Modernisation : agricultural sector:
The policy supports the introduction of modern technology in agricultural operations and application of improved inputs like HYV seeds.

Degradation of Environment:
Another objective of the policy is to check environmental degradation of the nature base of Indian agriculture.

Removing bureaucratic obstacles:
Another important objective of the policy is to remove bureaucratic obstacles on the farmers cooperative societies and self - help institutions to enable them to workindependently.

VII. Activity and Project.

1. Visit nearby “Uzhavar Sandhai” and collect the information about the functions of market.
Answer Key:
Uzhavar Sandhai is a scheme of the Government of Tamil Nadu to promote direct contact between farmers and consumers in Tamil Nadu.

Functions of Uzhavar Sandhai:
1. Uzhavar Sandhai also called as Farmer’s market was started at Madurai in 1999 to help the farmers to sell their produce at reasonable rate without the interference of the middlemen.
2. Uzhavar Sandhai starts its functioning from early morning.
3. It facilitates direct contact between farmers and the public.
4. It provides fresh vegetables and fruits at reasonable price daily without any interference from the middlemen.
5. Prices are listed down in the blackboards in every shop.
6. It provides correct measurement to the consumers with the price lesser than the retail price in the market.
7. It also acts as a technical training centre to the farmers.
8. Some of the Uzhavar Sandhai’s also sell seeds and other inputs to the farmers.
9. Farmers those who produce less can also sell in these farmer’s market and benefit themselves.

2. Collect information about health centre functioning nearby your location.
Answer Key:
Health centres provide continuous and comprehensive care to the patients. It helps in making the patients available with the social welfare and pubilc health services initiated by the Governing bodies.

Functions of Health Centre:
1. Provision of medical care.
2. Education about health.
3. Prevention and control of locally epedemic diseases.
4. Safe water supply and basic sanitation.
5. Maternal – child health including family planning.
6. Clinical Services.
7. Aged and disability care.
8. Child care.
9. Overall Health Promotion.