New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- In a strikingly cryptic but fraught remark Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said he will have to pay a "personal price" for not yielding to America's insistence on opening India's agriculture, dairy and fishery sectors.

"I know I will have to pay a heavy price personally, but I am ready for that", Modi said while addressing a gathering as part of the centenary celebrations of Dr. M S Swaminathan, regarded as the "Father of India's Green Revolution". This he said while asserting that the interests of India's farming, fishing and dairy communities will be his government's "top priority."

The Green Revolution refers to the 1960s transformation of agricultural practices led by Dr. Swaminathan which engendered inc...