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Food Security In India
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“In most of the years, the food stock in buffer stock remained consistently higher than the buffer norms.”  State the reasons.

Answer

The reasons are:
(i) The increase in the MSP has induced to farmers to produce food grains.

(ii)Most of the food grain producing states put pressure on the central government to purchase food grains from the farmers.

(iii)There is no proper distribution system and the PDS has also failed to solve the problem of buffer stocks.

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