Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said: “We will stress tomorrow the importance of maintaining adequate flow of finance to developing countries and also keeping markets open by resisting protectionist pressures.”
Doha conclusion - at the cost of smallholder farmer interests?By: Prof. J. George | 10-Jul-2009Reply | ForwardThe indian agricultural crisis is deepening and the union budget 2009-10 has further deepened this precipice. The small holder farmer is now subject to rent seeking demands of officials charged with the dispensation of extra and additional central schemes. Against this backdrop any development in WTO has to first safeguard interests of Indian and developing countries farmers.
Farmers take them onBy: Ashim Kumar Chatterjeee | 10-Jul-2009Reply | ForwardEven before the G8 had started, there were indications coming in India that India's stand in WTO, which was aimed to protect India farmers, would join. The news from G8 now is that India is not alone in this endevour. This is welcome for it is evident that our agricultural sector has remained as vulnerable as ever in spite of all the protection and subsidies. It is politically difficult for our leaders to admiit and say that poor state of agriculture has made India like a family in which only 3 out of ten earn and the rest either don't work or are pretending to work and contributing virtually nothing to the family kitty. However, in many manufacturing and service sector, where Indians decided to take the world competition on with the strength of new technology, it succeeded. Same model must be adopted for agriculture. Indian agri has to rise to the consciousness that they have change. And quickest mode of change is to embrace and run with the world with new purpose and opportunities.
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