New Delhi/Chandigarh, Feb. 19 -- The fourth round of talks between the three Union Ministers - Piyush Goel, Arjun Munda, and Nityanand Rai - and farmer representatives on Sunday, according to sources, made headway, and both sides are believed to form a committee with maximum participation from the protesters for further negotiations on the crisis.

Till the reports were being filed, the meeting was underway at a hotel in Chandigarh, and sources said in the last two hours of the meeting, the atmosphere was "friendly".

Sources said the farmers' representatives, however, had decided not to budge from their demand, while the Government side decided not to come under undue pressure, and a middle path had to be worked upon.

The meeting was amid...