Sunday’s talks between the protesting farmers and the Centre resulted in a proposal for the diversification of crops for which cooperatives NAFED can enter into a contract with farmers to purchase it at MSP without quantity limitations.
Two days after his statement in Nagpur snowballed into a controversy, Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare Narendra Tomar on Sunday clarified that the government has no proposal or plan to bring back farm reform laws.
Union minister General (retired) VK Singh on Saturday hit out at the farmers union and asked the farmers what was black in the farm laws barring the ink used to write them.
Ready to hold talks but stand remains same, say farmer leaders
Union Minister Tomar said the govt is ready to resume talks with protesting farmers but asked the unions to point out their objections to the provisions of the three farm laws with sound logic.
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NEW DELHI: Protesting farmer leaders on Wednesday reiterated that a complete repeal of three farm laws and legal guarantee on MSP are their main demands, after the government said it was ready to resume talks and asked them to point out their objections to the provisions of legislation.