‘Won't yield to external pressures on farm trade’

INDIAWILLNOTbeyielding to external pressure even as the world continues to grapple with “weaponisation’” of trade and tariffs, Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Thursday.

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“Amid volatile geopolitical situations where nations are fighting each other, where trade and tariffs are treated as weapons, where nations are ruling the world at their whims.....in such a situation, India has to choose its path,” Chouhan said at the 20th Annual General Meeting of the PHDCCI.

“Inthe current situation,one cannot relyon the global market for food. Therefore, we have to become self-reliant,’ Chouhan said. India imports pulses and oilseeds in large quantities for meeting domestic demand.