Elucidate the importance of buffer stocks for stabilizing agricultural prices in India. What are the challenges associated with the storage of buffer stock? Discuss.
What the examiner wants
For Buffer Stocks & Price Stabilisation, elucidate in sequence: first, Elucidate the importance of buffer stocks for stabilizing agricultural prices in India.; then, What are the challenges associated with the storage of buffer stock. Keep evidence and the conclusion tied to these exact limbs.
Demand-wise check
- 1Elucidate the importance of buffer stocks for stabilizing agricultural prices in India≈65 words
- 2What are the challenges associated with the storage of buffer stock?≈65 words
- 3Use at least two question-relevant examples/evidence points to support the final judgment on Buffer Stocks & Price Stabilisation, proportionate to a 250-word answer≈65 words
Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.
Answer plan
Where marks usually go
- Over-writing ‘Elucidate the importance of buffer stocks for stabilizing agricultural prices in India.’ while reducing ‘What are the challenges associated with the storage of buffer stock’ to a token paragraph
- Adding correct but adjacent facts on Buffer Stocks & Price Stabilisation that do not advance the exact causal, comparative or evaluative task in this PYQ
Value addition
- Buffer Stocks & Price Stabilisation: risk chain — driver/hazard → exposure → impact → mitigation/resilience
→ Draw it in the body, next to the point it supports.
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