GM trade-off: Is India prioritising US farmers over its personal?

Only in the near past, agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had made a transparent assertion indicating that the federal government has no speedy plans to permit GM seeds (although GM seeds of cotton and mustard are already accessible to Indian farmers) in Indian agriculture. No new GM seeds shall be launched for now.

If we examine this stance with the suggestions within the NITI Aayog paper, a contradiction turns into evident: the paper hints at giving American farmers the advantage of GM crops by way of duty-free entry, whereas Indian farmers are nonetheless restricted from utilizing such seeds themselves.

You will need to notice that the doc in query is a working paper, not an official coverage doc. As such, its contents don’t signify formal authorities coverage. Nevertheless, the paper does present insights into the considering inside NITI Aayog and, probably, the path of inner deliberations inside the authorities. The controversy highlights the complicated and sometimes conflicting pressures shaping India’s agricultural coverage within the face of world commerce challenges.