date:Jul 30, 2014
n parallel to the trade facilitation pact. It wants setting up of a dedicated special session of the committee on agriculture to find a permanent solution on public stockholding for food security by December 31, 2014.
* New Delhi is seeking to update the base of calculating food subsidies from 1986-88 prices to the current level, taking into account inflation and currency movements.
AGREEMENT IN BALI ON FOOD STOCKPILING
* In December 2013, the WTO members in Bali agreed on an interim solutio