<h1>Indian farmers' interests secured under Indo-US trade deal; crops protected and cluster support with subsidies for pulse mills.</h1> The interim Indo US trade agreement is asserted to protect farmers' interests by excluding US imports of listed agricultural products and by reducing tariffs on made in India exports to expand markets. The government pairs trade assurances with a cluster based domestic support programme: seed kits, Rs 10,000 per hectare for model farming, and subsidies up to Rs 25 lakh for pulse mills, targeting 1,000 mills nationwide to promote local processing and remunerative prices.