Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis will head a new high-powered committee to recommend structural reforms in Indian agriculture.

• It will suggest measures to attract private investment and modernise the agricultural market system.
• The Chief Ministers of Karnataka, Haryana, Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat, and Uttar Pradesh, and Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar will also be members of the committee.
• Up for discussion are two model Acts circulated by the Centre to States: the model Agriculture Produce and Livestock Marketing (Promotion & Facilitation) Act, 2017 and the model Agriculture Produce and Livestock, Contract Farming and Services (Promotion & Facilitation) Act, 2018.
• The panel will also examine various provisions of the Essential Commodities Act (ECA), 1955 and suggest changes which will attract private investment in agricultural marketing and infrastructure. 
• It will also suggest a mechanism for linking market reforms with existing centrally-sponsored schemes such as e-NAM.
• The panel will suggest measures to boost agricultural exports, to upgrade agri-technology, and attract investments in value chains, logistics and market infrastructure. 
• They will also leverage farmers’ access to quality seed, plant propagation material and farm machinery from advanced countries.