Karachi, Sept. 7 -- Pakistan's Sindh province is facing growing economic and political pressures, with farmers reporting mounting losses from weak crop prices and rising input costs even as a political uproar over the province's identity paralysed the Sindh Assembly.
The Sindh Abadgar Board (SAB) has sharply criticised the provincial government's agriculture deregulation policy, saying weak market oversight has left farmers increasingly dependent on financially powerful middlemen who buy crops at low prices and sell them to consumers at substantially higher rates, The Express Tribune reported.
At a meeting in Hyderabad chaired by SAB President Mahmood Nawaz Shah, representatives of the farming community said deregulation had failed to cre...