<h1>Trade deal impact: tariff asymmetry threatens farmer incomes, prompting calls for MSP guarantee and stronger crop protections.</h1> India-US trade negotiations are depicted as posing asymmetric market access that would expose Indian farmers to tariff-free competition from US agricultural exports while domestic producers face duties, threatening incomes and sectoral competitiveness. Parliamentary interlocutors advocated compensatory domestic measures including a Minimum Support Price guarantee, reorientation of fertiliser subsidies to end-users, reform of the crop insurance scheme to favour farmers, targeted debt relief, and import curbs on selected agricultural commodities to protect farmer livelihoods and national food security.