Ashok Dalwai Committee

The Union Government constituted an inter-ministerial committee headed by Ashok Dalwai to suggest measures to create favourable investment climate in the Indian agriculture sector and to realize the vision of doubling farmer’s income by 2022. Some of the major recommendations of the committee include-

• Placing agricultural marketing in the Concurrent list to realize the vision of eNAM.
• Greater private sector participation in agro-marketing and logistics sector.
• Promote state level agricultural reforms like creation of better physical infrastructure, improved price dissemination campaigns and reform regulations that force farmers to sell their agricultural produce to specific mandis creating monopolies.
• Farmer producer and village producer organisations ....