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Recommendations of National Commission on Farmers

September 19, 2020
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The National Commission on Farmers, chaired by Prof. M. S. Swaminathan, submitted five reports through the period December 2004 – October 2006. Following from the first four, the final report focused on causes of famer distress and the rise in farmer suicides, and recommends addressing them through a holistic national policy for farmers. 

Recommendations:

The report identifies major causes of the agrarian crisis as: 

  • unfinished agenda in land reform
  • quantity and quality of water
  • technology fatigue
  • access, adequacy and timeliness of institutional credit
  • opportunities for assured and remunerative marketing
  • adverse meteorological factors

Land Reforms

  • Distribute ceiling-surplus and waste lands
  • Ensure grazing rights and seasonal access to forests to tribals and pastoralists, and access to common property resources
  • Establish a National Land Use Advisory Service, which would have the capacity to link land use decisions with ecological meteorological and marketing factors on a location and season specific basis

Irrigation reforms

  • Increase water supply through rainwater harvesting and recharge of the aquifer should become mandatory
  • Minor irrigation and new schemes for groundwater recharge

Productivity

  • Substantial increase in public investment in agriculture related infrastructure particularly in irrigation, drainage, land development, water conservation, research development and road connectivity
  • A national network of advanced soil testing laboratories with facilities for detection of micronutrient deficiencies

Credit and Insurance

  • Establish an Agriculture Risk Fund to provide relief to farmers in the aftermath of successive natural calamities
  • Develop an integrated credit-cum-crop-livestock-human health insurance package
  • Issue Kisan Credit Cards to women farmers, with joint pattas as collateral
  • Expand crop insurance cover to cover the entire country and all crops, with reduced premiums and create a Rural Insurance Development Fund to take up development work for spreading rural insurance

Food Security

  • Implement a universal public distribution system. The NCF pointed out that the total subsidy required for this would be 1% of the GDP
  • Eliminate micronutrient deficiency induced hidden hunger through an integrated food cum fortification approach
  • Promote the establishment of community food and water banks operated by women Self-help Groups (SHG), based on the principle ‘Store grain and water everywhere’

Competitiveness of Farmers

  • Promotion of commodity-based farmers’ organisations such as small cotton farmers’ estates to combine decentralised production with centralised services such as post-harvest management, value addition and marketing, for leveraging institutional support and facilitating direct farmer-consumer linkage.
  • Arrangements for MSP need to be put in place for crops other than paddy and wheat. Also, millets and other nutritious cereals should be permanently included in the PDS.
  • Availability of data about spot and future prices of commodities through the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCD) and the NCDEX and the APMC electronic networks.
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