Agricultural Center Phase is a US-Indian trade demonstration

Why will Indian American corn get a single bushel?

This is the US Trading Secretary Howard Lutnick recently removed criticize India’s trade policy, sliding in market restrictions.

Lutnick in another interview It is charged in India in blocking US farmers And he called on him to open an agricultural market – offers quotas or restrictions such as a possible approach.

Agriculture is the main battlefield of US President Donald Trump Trade War has increasedTat or interaction tariffs set by tat or mutual tariffs occurring on April 2.

Tariffs are taxes caught by goods imported from other countries.

For years, Washington has forced to enter more in the farm sector of India, as an unreasonable market. However, India is severely protected in food security, livelihoods and the interests of millions of small farmers.

To make sure, India’s food failure is one of the greatest success stories that turn into a food-surplus power until a food-surplus power.

In the 1950s and in the ’60 years, he trusted food aid to feed the country’s population, but a number of agricultural copies were changed. India has made himself enough in the staples and became the world’s largest milk producer. The rapid growth in gardening, poultry and aquatic aquaculture has expanded the cooking basket.

Today India, the world’s eight-star-product exporter of the world, as well as the world’s eighth largest Agri manufacturer, as well as grain, fruit and milk in the world.

Again, despite such great gains, India is still in agricultural productivity, infrastructure and market access. Add global price volatables and climate change to call. The plant globally is behind the best. Small landowners condemn the problem – Indian farmers have a hectare of average hectares in an average of more than 46 hectares in 2020.

There is no surprise, it remains less than the fact that agriculture works about half of the workforce of India, but only 15% of GDP. For comparison, less than 2% of the US population depends on agriculture. An extraordinary trend for a developing country with limited production works is pressed in low-paid farm work.

This structural imbalance also shapes India’s trade policy. Despite the farm surplus, high tariffs are high to protect Indian farmers from cheap imports. Medium and high tariffs to high tariffs – up to 150% on the farm – farm imports.

Middle Tariff – The average duty of imported product – 37.7% in US products in India, according to the Delhi Based Building Tank Trade Organization (GTRI).

Bilateral economic trade between India and the United States is modest, only $ 8 billion (£ 6.2 billion).

India sends mainly rice, shrimp, honey, plant extracts, castor oil and black pepper, almonds, walnuts, pistachies, pistachies and lentils.

But the two countries are working on a Trade DealExperts now want to narrow $ 45 billion in trade deficit of Washington’s “large ticket” farm export – wheat, cotton, corn and corn.

“This time they do not want to export berries and items. The game is greater,” Biswajit Dhar, a trading expert from the Delhi-based council for social development.

It ignores Indian to farm tariffs, pricing support and genetically modified (GM) plants and milk, and the main asymmetry in global agriculture, experts argue.

For example, the United States is a heavy subsidy of agriculture and protects farmers through product insurance.

“In some cases, saying GTRI’s Ajay Srivastava.

Farming is the backbone of India, which supported more than 700 million people, about half of the country’s population.

“I remember that there are completely different agriculture in two countries,” he said, the former head of the WTO Research Center in the Indian Foreign Trade Institute Abhiji Das.

“The United States is a question of commercial agriculture, India intensively and residential agriculture. This is a question of millions of Indians and the interests of the United States agribusiness.”

However, India’s agricultural problems are not only foreign. Mr. Dhar says the most part of the sector struggles are “their own.” Farming has long been less than 6% of India’s total investment – infrastructure, machinery and other long-term assets are long for the growth of funds.

To protect millions of livelihood, the government protects key plants with imported duties and price support as wheat, rice and milk. “But this does not inspire confidence,” he says.

Four years ago, Tens of thousands of farmers protested Small government support – staples require minimal government price and legal guarantees for mainly wheat and rice.

“Even relatively well-working farmers do not see a return soon.

From the internal discontent and trade negotiations, the commercial negotiations add another complex layer.

Mr. Das, a real problem for India “Balancing the interests of India in the economic sector, the United States said the agreement with the United States will be the agreement with the United States.

So what is the way forward?

“India should not put pressure on us to open the agricultural sector,” Mr. Srivastava said. He will break millions of livelihoods, warning food safety and flooding local markets will threaten cheap import.

“India must prioritize its national interest and protect agriculture. Trade cooperation should not be the price of our farmers, food sovereignty or policy.”

In a long run, experts say India should modernize agriculture and increase more computational to increase agriculture and increase exports. Agri-Business Olam’s Unupom Kausik, India with the best global productivity, 200 million metric tones can create a paddi surplus – it is enough to provide global trade and battle hunger.

“In some way, Trump holds a mirror. We put less to invest in agriculture productivity,” Mr Dhar. “Now the best strategy for the purchase time – maybe it offers us cheaper imported as business financing.”

But for the best result, India’s “Hardball will be forced to play. Mostly tell us – it is open to negotiations on other fronts, but we do not violate our agricultural.”

It is clear that the problem of India is to negotiate a power position – to offer enough to keep Washington on the table while maintaining the rustic support. After all, in global trade, time and patience, as in agriculture, often give the best product. The jury is whether the Trump is ready to wait.