Farmers in Sindh’s Badin and Sujawal districts staged massive protests and road blockades, accusing rice millers and traders of manipulating paddy prices to exploit growers, as reported by The Express Tribune.

According to The Express Tribune, in Badin, hundreds of farmers halted traffic by blocking the Thar Coal-Karachi highway, disrupting major routes between Karachi, Hyderabad, and Tharparkar. Protest leaders joined by political and religious representatives claimed that rice millers had colluded to sharply reduce paddy prices from Rs3,200-3,400 per maund to just Rs2,300. They also alleged that mill owners were weighing 43 kilograms as one maund instead of the standard 40 kg, further cheating farmers of fair earnings.

Protesters demanded that the Sindh High Court chief justice and the

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