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Straw for income -Jitendra

-Down to Earth

Instead of burning paddy straw, farmers in Haryana's Panipat district are using it to farm mushrooms. This has eased pollution, too

Athick haze would eclipse the sun throughout the day from late October to early November," says Naresh Kumar of Puthar village in Haryana's Panipat district. Sitting beside neatly piled up paddy straw in his small 0.2 hectare field, the 40-year-old farmer is reminiscing about the common practice of burning straw to clear fields. "Since the past two or three years, the haze does not envelop the sky because we do not burn straw anymore. We use it to grow mushroom and make money," he says.

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Down to Earth, 15 February, 2015, http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/straw-income