Trade Liberalisation and Food Security: Challenges to the Indian Policy Makers

December 22, 2000

Dr. Ashok Gulati, NABARD Professor, Institute of Economic Growth presented his paper on the subject. Dr Gulati stressed that there was no danger to India’s food security from the commitments that India had undertaken in the Agreement on Agriculture under the WTO. He highlighted the need for an efficient and quick functioning of Tariff Commission for Agriculture to safeguard the interests of consumers as well as cultivators under the new set of rules for the conduct of international trade policy .He opined that India should negotiate for having the right to use special safeguards, hitherto availed by the developed countries.