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Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
India is lying at the WTO. The US report is true and fact based. There is no.point in denying it.
The massive support lent to farmers for rice and wheat is a fact. The whole MSP issue, a very sensitive one in Punjab and parts of Haryana and UP, is at the core of this.
India pays thousands of crores to farmers to procure rice and wheat at artificially hiked rates (MSP) which results is a gross distortion of the global grain markets.
The farm laws would have put an end to this. Hence, farmers from Punjab (the primary beneficiaries of the MSP scheme) protested which finally resulted in the withdrawal of the laws.
India is lying at the WTO. The US report is true and fact based. There is no.point in denying it.
The massive support lent to farmers for rice and wheat is a fact. The whole MSP issue, a very sensitive one in Punjab and parts of Haryana and UP, is at the core of this.
India pays thousands of crores to farmers to procure rice and wheat at artificially hiked rates (MSP) which results is a gross distortion of the global grain markets.
The farm laws would have put an end to this. Hence, farmers from Punjab (the primary beneficiaries of the MSP scheme) protested which finally resulted in the withdrawal of the laws.