Alexandre Fenelon Wrote:

>Itīs interesting to see
> -that external trade in India is so small. On the other hand, China
exports
> -are 35% of GDP. I think this make China more vunerable than India to the
> -oscillations of external market.

Yes, you are right.

> -Hmmm....good information. So how does India feed their urban population?

Kulaks generate enough surplus grain to feed urban population. Where
irrigation facilities are available, even other peasants can generate some
surplus grain. Punjab, Haryana are good examples. 

But my point is that world trade and the WTO are at the present of little consequence to vast sections of population in agriculture,if they don't sell grain and unlikely to do so in the foresseable future.What proportion of global "Third World" population in agriculture is part of/integrated with the world trade in foodgrains? Do you have the data?

Ulhas