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The Centre’s role was limited to linking spot market to future market, reforms in essential commodities Act and bolstering food storage and processing sectors. Unless the farmers’ income was supplemented by non-farm sources, the agrarian distress would not be alleviated, he said. more-inNITI Aayog member Ramesh Chand said it was time the States brought in reforms in the agriculture sector, pertaining mainly to market and land lease. We need to remove restrictions on agriculture market and invite competition between markets,” he said. The States should look at different zones and decide on crops that are suitable to specific zones,” he said..