What are food laws ? List the main objectives of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 ?

What is the importance of grading food ? On what basis are fruits and vegetables graded ?

"Different types of supplementary feeding programmes have evolved over the years to combat malnutrition." Comment on the statement highlighting the different programmes and their supplementary feeding components.

Role of ATMA

Government programme for cattle development

Products of a poultry farm

What do you understand by a dairy enterprise? Explain briefly how Operation Flood has helped farmers in income generation

Differentiate between 'Capture fisheries' and 'Culture fisheries', highlighting their types and categories.

What is a poultry enterprise ? List the Government schemes or programmes launched by the Government for poultry development.

Give the objectives and the components of the National Agriculture Policy

Explain the non-product specific agricultural subsidy granted by the Government.

What are the components of food subsidy? What are its benefits to the consumer ?

Elaborate on the three distinct ration cards issued under the TPDS

Foods from water.

Livestock form a very important source of production of food

Importance of kitchen garden in food production.

Define food budgeting. Discuss the factors you would consider while preparing a food budget for a food service unit.

Visit any one pregnant women in your neighbourhood. Record her food intake, age, month of pregnancy, income group, weight, height, food habits and state the number of servings she has consumed of the following: (Refer to Unit 8)

• Cereals and Millets:
• Protein Foods:
• Protective Foods:
• Other Vegetables
• Oil, Butter and Ghee
• Sugar and Jaggery

Name:                                   Height:
Age:                                      Weight:
Income Group:                     BMI:
Month of Pregnancy:            Food Habits: 

Comment if her diet is nutritionally adequate or not, suggest modifications that she should make to have a well balanced diet?

Record the food intake of an elderly person in your neighbourhood and answer the
following questions after analysing their food intake. (Refer to Unit 14)
Name:                                   Height:
Age:                                      Weight:
Gender:                                 BMI: 

i) Have they included foods from all food groups?
ii) What are the number of servings from each group?
iii) Do they meet their daily requirement?
iv) What advice will you give them for modifying their diet, within the same budget? 

Record the weight of a 4 or 5 year old child from each of these: a low, middle and high income group family. Plot their weights on the growth chart . Record your observation on the growth status of these three children.