The causes of poverty include changing trends in a country's economy, lack of education, unemployment, health, etc.

Food Corporation of India was set up on 14 January 1965 under the Food Corporations Act 1964. Its headquarter is at Delhi. 

Minimum Support Price (MSP) is a form of market intervention by the Government of India to insure agricultural producers against any sharp fall in farm prices. 

The most important step taken by the Government of India towards ensuring food security for poor people is implementation of the Public Distribution System (PDS).

• Selling poor quality food grains.
• Adulterated food stuffs, medicine etc.
• Use of false weight and measures.
• Hoarding and black marketing.

Food Corporation of India, a Government-owned corporation, procures and maintains the Public Distribution System (PDS). Major commodities distributed through PDS include staple foodgrains such as wheat, rice, sugar, and kerosene, through a network of fair price shops (also known as ration shops).

The major benefits of the Green Revolution were experienced mainly in northern and northwestern India between 1965 and the early 1980s; the program resulted in a substantial increase in the production of food grains, mainly wheat and rice.

Landowners from England generally only rented out poor bogland to the native Irish. In these areas, potatoes were often the only food that could be grown. The crop failures were caused by late blight, a disease that destroys both the leaves and the edible roots, or tubers, of the potato plant. The causative agent of late blight is the water mould Phytophthora infestans. The Irish famine was the worst to occur in Europe in the 19th century. In fact, the most glaring cause of the famine was not a plant disease, but England's long-running political hegemony over Ireland. The English conquered Ireland, several times, and took ownership of the vast agricultural territory. The Irish suffered from many famines under English rule option ‘a’ is the correct answer.

Chronic hunger is a consequence of diets persistently inadequate in terms of quantity and/or quality. Poor people suffer from chronic hunger because of their very low income and in turn inability to buy food even for survival.

There is a need for self sufficient in food because lot of foreign exchange which could have been used to import capital goods is being used to import food grains. Food is the basic necessity of all human beings. India is aiming at self-sufficiency in foodgrains since Independence. India adopted a new strategy in agriculture like the 'Green Revolution' to increase the production of wheat. The success of wheat was later replicated in rice. India stands 97th in Oxfam's Food Availability Index, and 103rd in the 2018 Global Hunger Index. A country can be called self-sufficient only when it produces enough to meet its domestic needs. The country produced 275.11 million tonnes that year option ‘b’ is correct answer.

A price lower than the market price is called issue price. The price at which a new security will be distributed to the public prior to the new issue trading on the secondary market. Also commonly referred to as offering price.

Buffer Stock is the stock of foodgrains, namely wheat and rice procured by the government through Food Corporation of India (FCI).
The FCI purchases wheat and rice from the farmers in states where there is surplus production.

The National Food for Work Programme was launched by minister of rural development,central government on 14 November 2004 in 150 of the most backward districts of India with the objective of generating supplementary wage employment.