Centre sensitive to farmers’ demands but protesters have not given ‘concrete suggestions’, says Piyush Goyal The government has held 11 rounds of talks with farmer leaders so far, the last one on 22 January before the Republic Day tractor parade that led to violent clashes New Delhi: Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday said the government is ready to resume talks with the farmers protesting the new farm laws but asserted that despite repeated proposals, the protesters have not come up with any "concrete suggestion" so far. Reiterating Prime Minister Narendra Modi's appeal to farmer unions that the government was "just a phone away" to discuss any issues raised by them, Goyal said "but for that somebody at least has to make call so that we can move forward".