Farmers hold rally against WTO draft in Jaipur

JAIPUR: Hundreds of small and marginal farmers from 25 districts of Rajasthan took part in a rally organised here on Wednesday to register their protest against a mini-ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation planning to conclude the Draft Modalities on Agriculture in Geneva on July 21. The participants in the long march pointed out that the draft in its present form did not address the concerns of farmers and had failed to show any willingness of the developed countries to reduce their "trade distorting subsidies'.