Paddy growers protest against millers over low price of crop.

BADIN -- Hundreds of paddy growers and farm workers from various areas of Shaheed Fazil Rahu taluka gathered in Golarchi town on Monday and staged a rally and sit-ins on main roads and roundabouts to register protest against rice millers for offering them low price for their produce and unfairly deducting over five kilos extra grain on sale of each 40kg paddy.

They demanded that official price of paddy be fixed at Rs1,500 per 40kg and rice millers be stopped from exploiting them.

They warned if the government did not resolve the issue at the earliest they would continue their protest and observe sit-ins on all roads in the entire district.

The protesters' leaders Mohammad Ismail Mahery, Karim Bux Rajo and others said that the millers in the district were exploiting small farmers with impunity. They were forcing growers to sell paddy at cheap rate and were also deducting five...

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