New Delhi, May 8 -- In recent global debates, India has been branded as the "Tariff King" for its agricultural trade policies. But scratch beneath the surface and a very different story unfolds - one that exposes how misleading and unfair this claim truly is.

If global agricultural protections, including tariffs, were displayed in a grand museum, the brightest spotlight would not fall on India. Instead, the true 'Kohinoors'-or jewels of protectionism-including the steepest, most impenetrable walls of tariffs, subsidies and unjustified non-tariff barriers, would belong to the rich countries. It's time to set the record straight and call out the emperors of global agricultural protectionism.

'Kohinoors' of agricultural protectionism Tho...