India slams developed world for agri subsidies
India said it was one of the main factors that "systematically undermined" the agricultural productive capacity and "devastated" the food security in developing nations.
By PTI |
United Nations: Slamming the rich countries for "astronomical" farm subsidies, India has said it was one of the main factors that "systematically undermined" the agricultural productive capacity and "devastated" the food security in developing nations.
Indian Ambassador to the UN, Nirupam Sen, also sharply criticised the argument that current world food crisis presented both threat and an opportunity, saying it would be "unfortunate" to present the "desperation of millions of vulnerable people in their struggle to feed themselves as opportunity."
Addressing the UN General Assembly on food crisis yesterday, he lashed out at the developed countries for "astronomical" agricultural subsidies and the Bretton Woods Institutions giving "harmful prescriptive advice" to "indiscriminately" shift away from food crops for domestic population to cash crops for exports.
These two factors "systematically undermined" the agricultural productive capacity and "devastated" the food security in the developing countries, he told the 192-member Assembly.
Sen said hopes that the high food prices would give necessary impetus to the developed countries to eliminate agricultural subsidies too have been belied.
"Earlier low food prices justified the subsidies of the rich.
Indian Ambassador to the UN, Nirupam Sen, also sharply criticised the argument that current world food crisis presented both threat and an opportunity, saying it would be "unfortunate" to present the "desperation of millions of vulnerable people in their struggle to feed themselves as opportunity."
Addressing the UN General Assembly on food crisis yesterday, he lashed out at the developed countries for "astronomical" agricultural subsidies and the Bretton Woods Institutions giving "harmful prescriptive advice" to "indiscriminately" shift away from food crops for domestic population to cash crops for exports.
These two factors "systematically undermined" the agricultural productive capacity and "devastated" the food security in the developing countries, he told the 192-member Assembly.
Sen said hopes that the high food prices would give necessary impetus to the developed countries to eliminate agricultural subsidies too have been belied.
"Earlier low food prices justified the subsidies of the rich.
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