“It is 16 years since the Swaminathan Commission submitted the first of its five reports to government…For years now, the Nation for Farmers platform has been calling upon the government to organise a special session of Parliament to discuss the report and related issues in the context of the ongoing agrarian crisis that has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of farmers these past two decades,” reads the statement released by the Nation for Farmers.Notably, the first report of the Swaminathan Commission was submitted in December 2004 and the last in October 2006.Despite it being one of the most comprehensive and detailed reports on agriculture, it has not been discussed in the Parliament. And the three farm laws were passed by the Modi government which are in contravention of the recommendations made by the Swaminathan Commission.Saying that the Commission will produce “a comprehensive report on the state of, and crisis within Indian agriculture and the distress within the larger agrarian society” the Nation for Farmers added, “The Commission will make recommendations on the real reforms needed in India – reforms that favor farmers and farm labor, that are in the interest of local communities, not of corporate interests.”
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