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Pressure of farm politics

REINING in agricultural subsidies is a major issue in the ongoing agriculture negotiations because the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA), seen as the fir

Planting paddy in Kerala's Wayanad district. It is by now wellestablished that farmers in developing countries suffered huge losses in export earnings because the subsidies granted in developed countries kept international prices of major commodities at artificially low levels.-K.K. MUSTAFAH

A trade stalemate

Recent events reinforce the view that the ambitious trade liberalisation agenda that developed countries, primarily the U.S. and the E.U., have tried