Farmers across Haryana staged demonstrations on Saturday (April 11, 2026) against the new set of rules imposed by the Haryana government for the procurement of farm produce. The protests were held in response to a call by the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) to symbolically block roads across the State, demanding the immediate withdrawal of the “coercive” measures.

Peaceful sit-ins were staged on national highways for four hours, but ambulance and other emergency vehicles were allowed to pass freely.

The Haryana government has implemented strict new rules for the 2026-27 wheat procurement season, claiming they would increase transparency, including mandatory ‘Meri Fasal Mera Byora’ (’my crop, my details’) registration, Aadhaar-based biometric verification, and compulsory vehicle number registration for gate passes via the e-Kharid app.

Farmer leaders have accused the State government of denying Minimum Support Price for various crops by making the procurement process more difficult, and imposing extraneous and stringent conditions. Farmers in northwestern States have suffered huge losses due to untimely rains and hailstorms but the government has not shown any liberal attitude in procurement, and further imposed strict rules, the farmer leaders said.

All India Kisan Sabha national vice president and senior SKM functionary Inderjit Singh, State president Master Balbir and secretary Sumit Singh claimed that the protest actions were observed in Sirsa, Fatehabad, Hisar, Bhiwani, Rohtak, Jind, Kaithal, Palwal, Jhajjar, Rewari, Sonipat, and Kurukshetra, among other places.

In Hisar, a massive, four-hour road blockade was staged near the Landhari-Chikanwas toll plaza on Saturday (April 11, 2026) afternoon. Farmer and labour organisations affiliated with the SKM participated in the protest in a display of solidarity. In a press statement, farmer leader Sardanand Rajli stated that the agitation served “merely as a warning and a rehearsal”. If the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government did not desist from its arbitrary policies, the SKM would launch a larger and decisive movement in the near future, Mr. Rajli said.

The SKM congratulated the farmers for making the protest action a big success, and strongly urged the government to see the writing on the wall and withdraw the new rules forthwith.

The farmer leaders said the government’s justification for the new measures as an attempt to bring more transparency in the procurement process was “baseless” and “deceptive”, adding that the recent multi-crore “ghost paddy procurement scam” in the State would not have taken place without influencing people having official patronage. An attempt was being made to hold the farmers responsible for the scam, and they were thus being harassed instead of bringing the real big sharks to book, the SKM leaders alleged.

SKM Haryana will soon chalk out a future course of action if the State government remained adamant, and did not hold discussions with farmer unions towards addressing the problems being faced by them, the farmer leaders said.