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This is
the complete Final Report of 'the Commission on Farmers'
Welfare' which was set up at the end of September 2004
by the Government of Andhra Pradesh, India, to look
into the agricultural crisis in the state, manifest
most glaringly in farmers' suicides. The Commission,
which was chaired by Jayati Ghosh and had Mahendra Dev,
Madhura Swaminathan, Mall Reddy, Nagaraj, Narasimha
Reddy, D. Nancharaiah, K. Raju, P. Krishnaiah, as members
among others and Utsa Patnaik as adviser, submitted
its report on 11 December, 2004. It was the opinion
of the commission that the agrarian crisis in Andhra
Pradesh can be linked to a combination of wrong public
polices of liberalisation and globalisation policies
at the central and state government levels and failures
at the level of local implementation. It made recommendations
for corrective policies in six different areas related
to agriculture, namely: institutional credit; irrigation
and sustainable water management; dryland farming; sustainable
input use; output price stability; and rural economic
diversification.
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