Extracts From Report of Farmer’s Commission

Agriculture price policy instruments are used to influence the level and fluctuation in prices and importantly the spread from the farm gate level price received by the producer and the price paid by the ultimate consumer. While initially, the State was mainly concerned with regulating the private traders, imports and distribution of foodgrains, etc., at low prices, after the mid sixties, the focus was on using the price policy for increasing the domestic production and providing food-grain to the consumer at reasonable prices.