Mr. Arun Jaitley, Minister for Commerce & Industry, with Mr. Celso Amorim, Minister for External Affairs of Brazil, during the G-20 meeting in Brasilia (Brazil) on December 12, 2003

India and the G-20

- Arun Jaitley

Agriculture is central to the economies of most developing countries. To the majority of them, it represents the means of livelihood of a substantial proportion of their population. In such countries, the health of the economy and the stability of society is closely interwoven with the interests and fortunes of farmers. For some other countries with strong export interests, agriculture constitutes the single most important engine for economic growth. The G-20 consists of a coalition of both kinds of developing countries and, therefore, strongly represents the needs of millions of farmers in all the major less developed regions of the world in Asia, in the Americas and in Africa   .......

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