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India-US trade deal protects farmer interest: Chouhan
Financial Express Pune
|February 18, 2026
THE INDIA-US TRADE deal was finalised after careful consideration, and the government ensured it would not harm the farming community, Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Tuesday.
“I am speaking with full responsibility as the agriculture minister of India. In the trade agreement,we have taken complete care of the interests of Indian farmers. It has been ensured that there will be no loss for India’s farming community,” he said at an event in Jaipur after launching Bharat-VISTAAR (virtually integrated system to access agricultural resources), a multilingual AI tool for farmers.
“Even today, we are not self-sufficient when it comes to pulses. If something that we need comes from another country, what is the objection?” he added.
This story is from the February 18, 2026 edition of Financial Express Pune.
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