Developing countries including India should withdraw from World Trade Organisation (WTO) at the earliest or at least take concrete steps to exclude agriculture from its purview, senior farmer activist M D Nandjunswamy said in New Delhi on Thursday.
"A two-day South Asian regional meet of farmers and peasant women in Delhi earlier this week urged developing countries to strive to keep agriculture out of WTO, if not to withdraw from it," Nandjunswamy told reporters in New Delhi.
Nandjunswamy, who organised the two-day regional meet on September 5 and 6under the aegis of an international organisation 'Via Campesina', said WTO provisions have only proved advantageous to developed countries.
All provisions of WTO only aimed at destroying agricultural production of third world countries and instead create market monopoly for the developed countries, he said adding New Delhi had a significant role to play in this context.
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