備び荒こう食しょく

noun

emergency food; famine food

Food stored or prepared for use during famines, natural disasters, or other emergencies. A somewhat formal or technical term.

• 自じ治ち体たいは災さい害がいに備そなえて備び荒こう食しょくを備び蓄ちくしている。

  The municipality stockpiles emergency food in preparation for disasters.

• 昔むかしの農のう家かは飢き饉きんに備そなえて備び荒こう食しょくを蓄たくわえた。

  Farmers in the past stored famine food in case of crop failure.