NEW DELHI: NITI Aayog 's task force on agriculture has recommended big bang reforms to address the politically sensitive issue of frequent spurt in crop prices.These include guaranteed prices for at least half the key crops, setting up of a unified national agriculture market, changing land lease laws and creating a mechanism to facilitate easy exit for farmers who want to move out of agriculture. The interim report will be presented to Prime Minister Narendra Modi soon for further action. "The comprehensive report talks about the need for reforms in the agriculture sector in a big way to address issues of bad weather, fluctuation in crop prices, and demand and supply problems in the long term," NITI Aayog member Ramesh Chand told ET.Chand is the member of the highlevel task force, which is chaired by NITI Aayog vice chairman Arvind Panagariya. The report has been finalised after collating the views of a similar task force of states.India is looking for another green revolution to make agriculture more efficient so that the country can produce enough with lesser land, while sparing some land for industrial and infrastructure development.According to Chand, the government is considering to introduce a system of deficiency price payment for at least half of the crops in the country on a sustainable basis, compared to the existing mechanism of providing minimum support price to just four crops.This will ensure that farmers get compensated on the basis of the difference between farm harvest price and the price assured without any bar on minimum procurement.The other important recommendation is a national market for farm produce. The Union budget for 2015-16 had announced setting up of the unified national agriculture market under the NITI Aayog."We need to have alternatives to traditional mandis. The Aayog is on the verge of finalising the structure of the unified national agriculture market," said Chand. The Aayog, the Centre's premier think tank, in August set up an expert committee on land leasing under the chairmanship of T Haque to prepare a model agriculture land leasing law for much-needed agriculture efficiency, equity, occupational diversification and rapid rural transformation.This will set the rules for leasing out land, which will allow pooling of land for large-scale mechanised cultivation that can help increase yields. It will also allow farmers to exit agriculture without having to sell their land. Besides, it is urging states to give landowners indefeasible titles and digitise their land records, much on the lines of Karnataka.A majority of states are keen to go ahead with their own Land Acquisition Act to acquire land for infrastructure development, following the Centre's failure to arrive at consensus on the Land Acquisition Act, 2013.