India's push for farm issues at WTO remains unsuccessful

Developing world led by India and China had thrown their weight behind a demand for a solution on food stockpiling

India has struggled to achieve its trade goals on a multilateral platform such as the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in the past, but the current year saw a drop in support for issues crucial to India and pushed back chances of the country achieving a permanent solution to food stockpiling.

Earlier this month, the 11th Ministerial Conference of the WTO, the largest global meet for multilateral trade talks held biennially, came to an end without any significant outcome as nations dug into their divergent positions and the US played spoilsport to India’s demands for a permanent solution on public stockpiling of