Prelims • Paper 1 (GS) • 2019 • Q.79
GS-III - Food subsidies and PDS
The economic cost of food grains to the Food Corporation of India is Minimum Support Price and bonus (if any) paid to the farmers plus
Syllabus Connection
Issues related to direct and indirect farm subsidies and minimum support prices; Public Distribution System- objectives, functioning, limitations, revamping; issues of buffer stocks and food security; Technology missions; economics of animal-rearing. (GS-III)
NCERT Connection
Ch.5: Government Budget and the Economy
Economics • Class 12 • Class 12 Macroeconomics