Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is trying to use the farming crisis in Ukraine to justify his efforts to prop up domestic farmers by saying his country could come to the rescue of grain-deprived nations. India’s subsidized wheat and rice stockpiling have made the country’s government a foe of U.S. wheat and rice farmers. Now, with a shortage of affordable wheat in the world as Ukraine — normally a major wheat-exporting nation — battles Russian invaders, Modi is hoping the situation provides new justification to what many say is a system of flouting WTO rules. Long before Russia invaded Ukraine and shut off the country’s wheat exports by blockading access to its Black Sea ports, India was subsidizing its farmers, helping them to harvest more wheat, rice and other crops, much of which went into storage and then onto the international market. The problem for American farmers is that the cheap Indian grain pushes down prices and stymies U.S. exports.