Archive - Oct 2005

More than 50,000 farmers from 14 states of India including Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Uttranchal, Gujarat, Karnataka, Tamilnadu, Kerala and Maharashtra belonging to different farmers unions participated in a huge Rally against WTO in Mumbai.

Even when it came to the obvious benefits for US agriculture contained in the recent US-Central American Free Trade Agreement, it was difficult weaning support from most members of the House Agriculture Committee, commented a senior committee aide on Friday

Immigration, an issue of well-documented political toxicity within the United States, is now also complicating efforts to strike a deal in the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations.