MP: Farmers end strike as govt raises moong procurement to 60 pc, suspends fertiliser e-token system

Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh government has agreed to procure 60 per cent of the moong crop from eligible farmers, extended the procurement deadline and halted the e-token system for fertiliser distribution, prompting agitating farmers to call off their protest in Bhopal.

The announcement came on Wednesday night, July 29, following talks between representatives of the state government and farmer leaders at the state secretariat, hours after thousands of protesters marched to within about a km of Chief Minister Mohan Yadav's residence after staging a demonstration outside Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's house.