FOOD SECURITY RESOURCES &

MINERAL RESOURCES

CONSERVATION

Made by : Pradhi Agarwal (39) Prakriti Ghosh (40) Pushkar Walia (42)

Rahul (43) (EEE – ‘E’)

Project Guide : Dr. Tanuja Nautiyal

Dept Of Chemistry

What are Mineral Resources

“ Natural resources in the form of minerals are known as mineral resources ”

They include-

• the ores of base metals such as copper, iron and lead;

• the critical metals such as chromium, titanium, platinum, cobalt, manganese, palladium, etc.

TYPES OF MINERAL RESOURCES

METALLIC NON-METALLIC

FERROUS NON-FERROUS MINERAL FUELS PRECIOUS STONES

(Fe, Co, Ni) (Cu, Pb, Sn) (Coal, fossil fuels) Precious stones(Ag, Au, Pt)

MINERAL RESOURCES

OF INDIA

MINERAL EXTRACTION

Environmental Effects of Extracting & Using Mineral Resources

Chhattisgarh has a wide variety of rocks as Igneous, Sedimentary and Metamorphic.

Some of them are large economic deposits while few of them are reported only as occurrences.

The Large amount deposits of Coal, Iron Ore, Limestone, Bauxite, Dolomite and Tin ore are located in different parts of the Chhattisgarh state.

Recently identified diamondiferous kimberlite in Raipur district is also likely to yield substantial quantity of diamonds.

The deposits of Gold base-metals, Quartzite, Soapstone, Steatite, Fluorite, Corundum, Graphite, Lepidolite, workable size Amblygonite of identified.

The Occurrences of Garnet, Amethyst, Beryl, Andalucite, Kainite, Sillimanite and rare precious Mineral Alexandrite are reported in the different parts of the State.

IMPORTANT MINERALS OF STATE

The perfect geological set up to host a number of economic mineral deposits are found in the Chhattisgarh state.

In the area multiple major thermo tectonic events, cover in principal Metallogenic and Mineralogenic episodes has been observed.

More than 28 known minerals are available and the state is the richest in mineral wealth.

The important mineral is Diamond in which the name of the State is intimately associated.

The Coal, Iron ore, Limestone, Dolomite, Bauxites and Tin ore and Tin ore, occurs only in Chhattisgarh state in India.

The Atomic minerals and precious metal gold also occurred in the state.

MINERAL EXPLORATIONS

There is huge potential for search of high value and scarce minerals, associate with the deep and shallow mantle originated basic and ultramafic intrusive rocks

The thousand tons of Iron Ore are being excavated and supplied to different part of country and abroad every year from the State.

The Bauxite is also one of the important ore which is being excavated in hug amount and supplied for use of aluminum factories every year.

The huge quantity of different types of Rocks are also excavated and supplied for different purposes.

Case Study on

Mineral Resources

FOOD SECURITY

What is Food security means :

availability ; accessibility; affordability;

of food to all people at all times.

PillPillars of FOOD SECURITY

Food Security is ensured in a country only if :

Enough food is available for all the persons ;All persons have the capacity to buy food of

acceptable quality ; There is no barrier on access to food.

Need for Food Security

For the poor sections of the society ; Natural disasters or calamity like earthquake,

drought, flood, tsunami ; Widespread crop failure due to drought.

FOOD SECURITY IS HAVING

A - AVAILABLE C - CUTURALLY APPROPRIATE C - CHEAP & AFFORADABLE E - EATING HEALTHY S - SAFE S - SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE

TO FOOD EVERYDAY…

Steps from Food Insecurity to Food Security

Buffer stock

Food Security System

of India

Public Distribution

System

India’s Food Security System

Public Distributi

on System

Make In India

Government Schemes for Food Security In India

PDS (Public Distribution System) AAY (Antyodaya Anna Yojana)

APS (Annapurna Scheme) Buffer Stock

We are studying food security in India at national level and also at micro level in Kandi belt of Punjab.

This region is selected for the study as it shows the paradox of food insecurity in a food surplus state i.e. in Punjab.

It also explains the regional variations in food-grains production within a state.

For this study, firstly, we analyzed food-grains availability data at national level as well as state level from 1966-2012 which indicated that after the famous Green Revolution, production increased in Punjab and collectively in India.

But from last one decade food-grains production is almost stagnant which challenges the food security of the country in future.

Secondly, share of agriculture in Gross Capital Formation (GCF) and State Domestic Product (SDP) is also analyzed which showed a declining trend and non-agriculture sectors are receiving increased share.

India is one of the south–Asian developing countries.

A large majority of the poor and food insecure people live in this part of the world and the incidence of malnutrition is very serious.

In India the status of food security has undergone a significant change.

Agriculture plays a crucial role in the economy of the country.

Increasing agricultural production for achieving food security for all has been the central focus ofIndia’s agricultural development strategy since independence in 1947.

After Green Revolution, due to substantial increase in the production of food grains, the country is largely self sufficient in food production and imports only a very small part of the food requirement.

It has the world’s largest area under cultivation for wheat, rice, and cotton, and is the world’s largest producer of milk, pulses, and spices.

Before independence the growth rate of agriculture was only 0.3 percent but after independence and particularly from 1966 onwards, the growth rate jumped to 2.8 percent.

Its production has increased from 74.23 million tonnes in 1966-67 to 257.44 million tonnes in 2011-12.

Case Study on Food Security

• Environmental Studies by Dr. Ranu Gadi• Introduction to Environmental Engineering by McGraw Hill

Education• “Envis Assam”. State Environment Related Issues, Assam.

April - June, 2003 Vol. 2, No. 2, Pollution Control Board of Assam

• Asia Pacific Journal of Research, Vol: I Issue XI, November 2013

http://waset.org/publications/7483/food-security-in-india-a-case-study-of-kandi-region-of-punjab

http://www.scienceandnature.org/IJEMS-Vol4(4)-Oct2013/IJEMS_V4(4)2013-3.pdf

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