In accordance with the Mid-Term Review Agreement that government measures of assistance, whether direct or indirect, to encourage agricultural and rural development are an integral part of the development programmes of developing countries, investment subsidies which are generally available to agriculture in developing country Members and agricultural input subsidies generally available to low-income or resource-poor producers in developing country Members shall be exempt from domestic support reduction commitments that would otherwise be applicable to such measures, as shall domestic support to producers in developing country Members to encourage diversification from growing illicit narcotic crops.
V skladu s Sporazumom o srednjeročnem pregledu, da se vladni ukrepi pomoči, bodisi posredni ali neposredni, za pospeševanje kmetijskega razvoja in razvoja podeželja, ki so sestavni del razvojnih programov držav v razvoju, subvencionirana vlaganja, ki so na splošno na voljo kmetijstvu v članicah državah v razvoju, ter subvencije za kmetijske inpute, na splošno na voljo proizvajalcem z nizkimi dohodki ali revnimi viri v članicah državah v razvoju, oprostijo obvez zniževanja domače podpore, ki bi sicer za te ukrepe veljale, kakor tudi domače podpore proizvajalcem v članicah državah v razvoju za pospeševanje nadomestne pridelave nedovoljenih narkotičnih pridelkov.