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102Uncorrected/ Not for publication- 08.12.2009other forms of services, including outsourcing etc. Now, the servicenegotiations, instead of being multilateral, are either bilateral orplurilateral, for which offers and responses are going on. Obviously, itappears that the developed world is not very keen, as far as the pace ofthese negotiations is concerned. In the services sector, they are keenessentially on areas like financial services, retail being opened up, andthere is a conscious go-slow as far as these areas of keen interest toIndia are concerned.(continued by 1y - gsp)GSP-MCM-1Y-1.00SHRI ARUN JAITLEY (CONTD.): So, my first query to the Minister is:what is the position of negotiations as far as the services sector,particularly, in these areas is concerned.Secondly, Sir, agriculture is of key interest to us for the reasonthat more than sixty per cent of India is employed, or, even, underemployed, as far as agriculture is concerned. Now, the agriculturalnegotiations have virtually been stalemated, and, today, the key to theentire pace of movement in the WTO is such that the manufacturingsector, the NAMA negotiations, the services negotiations are not movingbecause agricultural negotiations are stalemated. And, the reason whyagricultural negotiations is stalemated is that unless the subsidies arerationalised, some of them completely eliminated, and, some of themsubstantially reduced, there can't be a level-playing field. We cannotexpect our subsistence farmer to compete with the highly subsidisedfarmer who gets almost a billion dollars a day from the developedeconomies in the world towards his subsidisation; his products are going