Indian Farmers Pause Protests to Review Government Crop Deal

  • Two sides draw closer to agreement to end crop price dispute
  • Farmers to review government proposal next two days: NDTV
Demonstrators during a farmers protest near the Haryana-Punjab state border in Rajpura on Feb. 16.Photographer: Prakash Singh/Bloomberg
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Indian farmers paused their protests after the latest round of talks with the government, even as a key section of growers disagreed with the proposed deal.

The negotiations — held late into Sunday night — followed almost a week of protest by tens of thousands of growers in the north of the country. The farmers have been massing at the Punjab-Haryana border since Feb. 12, prevented from marching toward Delhi by police barricades of barbed wire and metal barriers.