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Modi says, free trade agreement with EU hit Indian dairy sector

Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi slammed the union government on Tuesday for its proposed free trade agreement with the European Union (EU) and said it would destroy the country’s domestic dairy sector.

Due to the agreement, milk and milk products would be dumped in the country and that would harm India’s domestic and co-operative sector, he alleged.

Alleging that the central government had adopted a “discriminatory” policy against Gujarat’s co-operative sector, Modi said that despite Gujarat’s capacity to provide milk to many other states, the central government had ‘refused’ to make railway milk tanker facilities available.

“Poor people are not in the priority list of this central government,” he alleged. Modi criticised the central government for not heeding a demand to reduce interest rates for farmers in Gujarat who faced crop failure due to delayed monsoons last year.

“We requested that interest rates on loans from nationalized banks be reduced from seven per cent to four percent, but that was never considered by this anti-poor central government,” he alleged.

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