New Delhi (PTI): India on Tuesday said the new WTO text ignoring livelihood concerns in agriculture is "totally unacceptable" and the country will thwart rich nations' efforts to "divide and rule" growing countries on the issue of tariff cuts on industrial products under the Doha trade talks.

Rejecting proposals on tariff cuts on industrial goods, Commerce Secretary G K Pillai said the Non-Agricultural Market Access text was a "total mess" with 97 areas of differences.

While the number of differences in agriculture have come down, total neglect of livelihood concerns of the poor farmers is unacceptable. Pillai said though rich nations are keen to push for a Ministerial Meeting in June, "there will be no deal if our core national interests are not protected".

Chairman of the group on agriculture Crawford Falconer has retained the condition of 30 per cent drop in import- driven prices before a developing country is allowed to counter it by imposing safeguard duty. "If we accept this condition, how will we face Parliament," Pillai said.

India wanted that it should have the option of going for safeguard trigger the moment prices fall by 5-10 per cent.

The negotiating groups on agriculture and industrial products of the World Trade Organisation yesterday released new proposals, on which intense negotiations will again begin in Geneva from May 26.

Chairman of the NAMA group Don Stephenson has put out a "confusing" draft that seeks to divide the NAMA-11 coalition of developing countries, protecting interest of countries like Mexico and South Africa, while targeting India and China, Pillai said.

Stephenson has done this by offering different formulae for tariff cut by developing countries. "Our stand is very clear. You can do what you like but whatever flexibility is given to one country, should be given to all," he said.