India on Thursday asked the developed countries to reduce trade distorting subsidies in agriculture so that farmers in the developing nations get motivated to grow more grain and end the global food crisis.

"Developing countries have no alternative but to produce more food in the coming years," Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath said in his interaction with media on Thursday.

But the farmers need to be assured that they would get right prices for their produce in a market which is not distorted by subsidies.

"Subsidies in agriculture have to be reduced much faster than proposed currently so as to send the right signals to developing country farmers," Nath said, reacting on the new negotiating texts on agriculture and industrial goods by the World Trade Organisation.

The fresh proposals on cutting agricultural subsidies and industrial tariffs under the Doha Round of trade talks were circulated on Monday by Chairs of the two groups.

Nath said while trade ministers of developed nations had talked of tackling global food crisis through reduction of domestic subsidies and agricultural tariffs in the Doha Round, "there has been a studied reluctance on their part to get these recent promises converted into concrete proposals in the draft text."

Pointing to the increase in number of square brackets - issues on which differences among negotiators persists – the minister said the text on industrial goods needs to be "completely revised and significant convergence achieved before taking the matter for deliberation at the Ministerial level".

"A lot of work still needs to be done to narrow differences and converge before identifying a safe landing zone," Nath said.