<h1>Trade policy stance: India prioritises farmers' market protection, resisting agricultural market access in trade talks.</h1> India's operative trade policy refuses concessions that would expand foreign access to agricultural and dairy markets, framing recent tariff measures by a trading partner as coercive and asserting willingness to bear economic costs to protect farmers, dairy producers and fishermen. Domestic policy response relies on income supports, insurance, irrigation and value chain schemes, farmer producer organisations, cooperatives and digital platforms as core mechanisms to stabilise incomes and justify retention of protective market measures. Strategic priorities include climate resilient crop development, crop diversification, precision irrigation and integration of AI for real time farm decision support.