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WTO Summit: India to Focus on Farmers, Fishermen and Digital Policy Freedom
India will strongly raise issues related to small farmers, fishermen, and food security at the WTO meeting in Cameroon.
India is planning to ensure that the lives and earnings of small farmers and fishermen improve. This is to be done during the World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting to be held in Cameroon. The meeting is to take place for four days starting March 26 in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The aim of the meeting for India is to ensure that developing nations are allowed to frame their own policies in areas like digital trade.
Trade ministers from 166 member nations, including India, China, and the United States, are to attend. Discussions are to be held on global trade policies concerning farming, online shopping, and fishing. The country is to be represented by its Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal and senior officials from the Department of Commerce and India’s Permanent Mission in Geneva. India's main focus will be ensuring food security, protecting the employment of small farmers and fisheries, and maintaining freedom for developing countries in digital trade and new technologies.
India supports efforts that increase investment in developing countries. At the last meeting, India opposed the China-led IDF proposal. This proposal will be binding on member countries.
