Countering Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal’s statement in Parliament that “India’s sensitive sectors of agriculture and dairy have been excluded” in the Indo-U.S. bilateral trade deal, the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) said here on Wednesday (February 4, 2026) that the government’s stand was contradictory to the claim made by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins that the U.S. would “export more American farm products to India’s massive market, lifting prices, and pumping cash into rural America.”
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The umbrella body of several farmers’ organisations sought clarification from the Centre on Ms. Rollins’s claim that the deal would help to reduce the U.S.’s $1.3 billion agricultural trade deficit with India. “The Commerce Minister did not object or deny the claim of Ms. Rollins. Mr. Goyal’s statement is unscrupulous and aimed to misguide the people, especially the farmers, and hence he has no moral authority to continue in the constitutional position,” the SKM statement said.
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The SKM warned Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the country would witness a repeat of farmers’ protest similar to 2020-21 (against the three farm laws) if any agricultural product or dairy was included in the U.S. trade deal. “The Prime Minister remains silent on this most serious and sensitive issue affecting the livelihood of crores of working people across India,” the SKM added.
