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I dont think this free trade thing would work in India's case. In india the farmer has no power to set the price. He is controlled by what the local middlemen (backed up by goondas) agree to pay him. In times of rising food sure he may be paid a bit more, but only a bit. The middlemen would send the rice further up the chain where most of it would be exported for super profits abroad.
End result is: Farmers still poor, middlemen all along the chain filthy rich, no food for the poor, govt forced to buy rice for the ration shop system at ruinous prices.
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