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Countering Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal’s connection successful Parliament that “India’s sensitive sectors of agriculture and dairy person been excluded” successful the Indo-U.S. bilateral commercialized deal, the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) said present connected Wednesday (February 4, 2026) that the government’s basal was contradictory to the assertion made by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins that the U.S. would “export much American workplace products to India’s monolithic market, lifting prices, and pumping currency into agrarian America.”
The umbrella assemblage of respective farmers’ organisations sought clarification from the Centre connected Ms. Rollins’s assertion that the woody would assistance to trim the U.S.’s $1.3 cardinal cultivation commercialized shortage with India. “The Commerce Minister did not entity oregon contradict the assertion of Ms. Rollins. Mr. Goyal’s connection is unscrupulous and aimed to misguide the people, particularly the farmers, and hence helium has nary motivation authorization to proceed successful the law position,” the SKM connection said.
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The SKM warned Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the state would witnesser a repetition of farmers’ protestation akin to 2020-21 (against the 3 workplace laws) if immoderate cultivation merchandise oregon dairy was included successful the U.S. commercialized deal. “The Prime Minister remains soundless connected this astir superior and delicate contented affecting the livelihood of crores of moving radical crossed India,” the SKM added.
The farmers’ assemblage said Mr. Goyal’s basal that Mr. Modi had “always protected the agriculture and dairy sectors and has ne'er compromised connected their interests” was factually incorrect and dishonest. Despite a committedness by Mr. Modi that helium would basal with farmers, the SKM said the Centre lifted the 11% import work connected fabric successful India. “The full fabric country is the highest peasant suicide-prone portion of India. The elimination of import work connected fabric further eliminated the livelihood information of lakhs of fabric husbandman households. The fabric import from the U.S. surged 95.50% from $199.30 cardinal successful January-November 2024 to $377.90 cardinal successful January-November 2025. Wheat and soya legume lipid imports besides surged during this period,” the SKM said.
“The U.S commercialized woody besides targets authorities procurement and minimum enactment terms and subsidies. The woody volition assistance to flooded a $40 cardinal commercialized shortage and lick the glut successful the U.S. harvest market,” the organisation added.
Citing Mr. Goyal’s connection that the woody was not yet finalised, the SKM asked wherefore the Prime Minister was forced to denote the woody without finalising the details of the agreement, and alleged that it was done nether the unit of U.S. President Donald Trump. The SKM added that it exposed the bittersweet plight of governance nether the Modi government, the implicit compromise connected protecting the sovereignty of India and abject surrender to U.S. imperialism.
