Indian agriculture
faces extremely difficult times if the government signs the Free Trade
Agreement (FTA) with the European Union, which seems extremely likely. The
smoke signals have already started blowing from Brussels. The 27-nation block
of the EU, which is notorious for its extravagant subsidies dished out to the
Union’s farmers, has set aside a big chunk of its new seven-year budget to
subsidise its agriculture, more precisely, €363 billion. That works out to
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