Monsoon rains are crucial for the farm sector as more than 60% of India's farmland is rainfed.
In the millennium round, poor countries could benefit from America's determination to prise open Europe's cosseted farm sector.
Despite the perceptions of a corporatized farm sector, this entrepreneurial spirit remains.
Even more important than lobbying by Japan's manufacturers, say some reformists, will be the accumulation of pressures within the farm sector itself.
He said India's dominant farm sector was poised to grow as well.
Japan's biggest manufacturers each sell more than Japan's entire farm sector combined.
After all, a powerful incentive for Japan to take part is to make its farm sector, which contributes just 1% to GDP, more competitive.
Some 387, 000 jobs were created outside the farm sector, the biggest jump in more than two years and many more than the 255, 000 predicted by Wall Street.
The farm sector has been handicapped by myriad difficulties, among them a lack of essential inputs, such as fuel, working farm equipment and seeds, and a deplorable distribution system.
If a compromise is reached, the third dimension of the chessboard includes Brazil, which is nervous about dropping industrial tariffs, and India, which has deep trepidation about opening its farm sector.
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Over the period of 1919-29, productivity growth in the non-farm business sector was a more modest 2.3%.
And there are legitimate grievances, such as the north's rampant farm-sector protectionism that keeps competitive crops from poorer nations out.
If India gets normal rains, overall farm-sector growth rate could nearly double to between 3% and 4% this fiscal year, said Sujan Hajra, chief economist at Anand Rathi Securities.
To confuse matters more, the most popular productivity measure in America is output per hour in the non-farm business sector, which grew by an annual average of 2.5% over the past five years.
Also, the farm products commercial sector can make a contribution by using technology to improve varieties and production methods.
In a statement, the UFU president said Northern Ireland farmers had invested in a "birth to farm gate" traceability system in the local red meat sector, which was complemented by the Farm Quality Assurance Scheme.
In Brazil and Turkey, around half of non-farm workers are in the informal sector.
The Automatic Data Processing (ADP) National Employment report that was released on May 31, 2011, showed that just 38, 000 new private sector, non-farm jobs were added in May.
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The fear is that the country's agricultural sector will be hurt by reduced tariffs on farm products.
For all the talk of cheap gas giving America a competitive edge, manufacturing only employs 9% of the non-farm workforce in the U.S., and the chemicals sector a mere 0.6%.
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But nobody is more interested in seeing our agricultural sector successful than I am, partly because I come from a farm state.
As markets digest the positive surprise provided by the ADP employment numbers, which showed that 217, 000 private sector jobs were added to the economy ahead of the all-important non-farm payroll report by the Labor Department on Friday, planned layoffs reached an 11-month high on February, with the number increasing for a second consecutive month, giving investors reasons to be concerned.
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