I stood in a mandi and listened to men count costs like rosary beads. Feb 12 is on their calendar now because SKM says this interim India US framework looks like surrender. They talk about crude soyoil at about 16.5% duty and wonder who benefits if it drops, the oilseed farmer or the importer. In Kashmir, the fruit growers say over 700,000 families live off apples, and they are begging for duties above 100% on US apples. The counterargument is familiar, the government says rice, wheat, corn and dairy are protected, and basmati, tea, coffee and spices get duty-free doors into America. My rebuttal is not a slogan, tell the oilseed farmer to export basmati, tell the apple grower to sell spices. You cannot patch a hole in one field with a promise from another. Put every tariff line and safeguard on the table, or people will relive 2020-21 and you will again pretend you did not see it coming. If Piyush Goyal wants trust, he can earn it with paper, not speeches.