India, Oct. 22 -- Indian ministers and officials are verbally committed to safeguard the interests of farmers and dairy-workers. Yet, as the country inches towards a trade pact with the US, there is some finality on accepting give-and-take terms, or initiating win-some, lose-some policies. Recent events indicate that New Delhi is fast creating small, but visible and credible, windows of trade concessions for the Americans. Some experts dub them as potential test cases in certain farm products to assess local reactions and criticisms.

For example, media reports indicate that India has agreed to ease restrictions on the import of genetically-modified (GM) maize, or American corn, which is one of the contentious issues. In the past, Washing...