Instead Of Burning Stubble, Farmers Are Ploughing Crop Residue Back To Soil To Increase Fertility
Smoke emitting from paddy fields are a big cause of air pollution in Delhi during the months of October and November. In Kalar Majra a village near Nabha in Punjab not a single straw was burnt. Close to 60 families farm about 700 acres of land and chose to plough the stubble back to the coil.
In a bid to tackle toxic air pollution, farmers from Punjab and Haryana are ploughing stubble back into the soil instead of burning it. The smoke emitting from paddy fields are a big cause of air pollution in Delhi during the months of October and November.
In Kalar Majra, a village near Nabha in Punjab, not a single straw was burnt. Close to 60 families farm about 700 acres of land and chose to plough the stubble back to the coil.
¡°The government chose our village as a model and gave all the machinery needed to manage the crop residue,¡± Bir Dalvinder Singh, a Kalar Majra farmer who persuaded his neighbours to heed the government¡¯s call against burning stubble told The Times Of India.
Their eco-friendly step even earned praise from the National Green Tribunal.
While there is little assistance from the government this year, more than 70 per cent of Kalar Majra has decided to not burn paddy.
Interestingly, according to a recently released satellite map of India, NASA spotted fewer places where stubble burning was taking place as compared to last year.
The cases of stubble burning have gone down significantly.
