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What are the merits and demerits of PDS?? |
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Answer» Merits:- 1- It has helped in stabilising food prices and making food available to consumers at affordable prices. 2- It has helped in AVOIDING hunger and famine by supplying food from surplus regions of the country to deficient regions. 3- The system of Minimum Support Price (MSP) and PROCUREMENT has contributed to increase in foodgrain production. Demerits 1-Instances of hunger occur despite granaries being full. This points to certain lacunae or inefficiency in the system. 2- High levels of buffer stocks often leads to wastage of foodgrains and deterioration in quality. 3- The storage of foodgrains inculcates high carrying costs on the government. 4- The provision of MSP has encouraged FARMERS to divert land from production of coarse grains that are consumed by poor, to rice and WHEAT |
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