1. Cooperatives are playing very important role in food security in India especially in the southern and western parts of the country.  

2. The cooperatives societies set up shops to sell low priced goods to poor people.  

3. For example, out of all fair price shops running in Tamil Nadu, around 94 per cent are being run by cooperatives.  

4. Amul is another success story of cooperatives in milk and milk products from Gujarat. It has brought about the White Revolution in the country.  

5. Sugar Cooperative mills are also running successfully in the Southern part of India 

1. India has become self-sufficient in food grain production during the last thirty years A. This is because of a variety of crops grown all over the country.  

2. The availability of food grains even in adverse weather conditions or otherwise, has further been ensured with a carefully designed food security system by the government.

3. Green Revolution makes self-sufficient.

4. This system of Buffer stock and public distribution system proves very helpful in ensuring self-sufficiency in food security.

5. The government has also initiated other food intervention programmes like Integrated Child Development Services, Food for Work Program, Rural Wage Employment Programs 

Subsidy is a payment that a government makes to a producer to supply the market price of a commodity. Subsidies can keep consumer price low while maintaining a higher income of the producers. 

ADS stand for Academy of Development science which facilitates a network of NGOs for setting up grain banks in different regions. 

Integrated Child Development Services 

1. Public Distribution system for food grains (in existence earlier but strengthened thereafter) is major step taken by the Government of India towards ensuring food security.

2. Integrated Child Development Services introduced in 1975 on an experimental program.

3. National Food for Work Program was introduced in 1977-78. This program was launched on November 14, 2004 in 150 districts of the country with the objective if intensifying the generation of supplementary wage employment 

1. The Act provides for food and nutritional security life at affordable prices and enables people to live a life with dignity.

2.  Under this act 75% of rural population and 50% of urban population have been categorized as eligible households for food security. 
 

1. AAY is Antyodaya Ann Yojana. It was launched in December 2000.

2. Under the scheme one crore of the poorest among the BPL families covered under the targeted public distribution system were identified.

3. Poor families were identified by the respective state rural development departments through a below poverty line survey.

4. 25 kilograms of food grains were made available to each eligible family at a highly subsidies rate of Rs 2 per kilogram for wheat and Rs 3 per kilogram for rice.