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Union ministers meet farmer groups to break deadlock over agri laws

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Union ministers meet farmer groups to break deadlock over agri laws

NEW DELHI: The sixth round of talks between the protesting farmer unions and three Central ministers got underway here Wednesday afternoon to break the over one-month-long deadlock on the recent agri laws. Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, Railways, Commerce and Food Minister Piyush Goyal and Minister of State for Commerce Som Parkash, who is … Read more

Farmers amp up MSP demand in mass protests

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Farmers amp up MSP demand in mass protests

NEW DELHI: Scrap the new agriculture laws, which have deregulated the sale of crops, or insert an amendment in the laws that crops cannot be bought by private parties below the government-fixed minimum support price (MSP) – protesting farmers are steadfast in their key demand a week after thousands of them came and sat on … Read more