5 months ago
1
Thalavady Farmers Association connected Monday (January 5, 2026) urged the Union authorities to support agriculture and the dairy assemblage retired of the projected India-United States Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
In a petition submitted to Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Shivraj Singh Chouhan successful Erode, Mr. Kannaiyan expressed interest implicit reports and authoritative indications that the United States was pressing India to unfastened its markets to American cultivation and dairy imports, including wheat, soybean, canola, milk, and different dairy products.
He warned that immoderate import of crops for ethanol accumulation would depress home prices. Indian maize farmers were already struggling to retrieve the outgo of cultivation, and imports would further aggravate agrarian distress, helium said. Stressing that India’s dairy assemblage needed maximum protection, Mr. Kannaiyan said the country’s presumption arsenic the world’s largest beverage shaper was built connected a decentralised, household-based exemplary involving tiny and marginal farmers. Any import of subsidised dairy products would severely impact home beverage accumulation and endanger the livelihoods of astir 15 crore families babelike connected the sector, helium added.
He urged the Government of India to exclude agriculture and dairy from each escaped commercialized agreements, including the projected India-U.S. FTA.
