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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Farmers blame govt’s agriculture model for straw burning -Akanksha Jain

Farmers blame govt’s agriculture model for straw burning -Akanksha Jain

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published Published on Nov 11, 2015   modified Modified on Nov 11, 2015
-The Hindu

As Delhi blames the smog and haze on straw burning in the National Capital Region and the neighbouring states, the farmers are pointing the finger at the government’s inefficient agricultural model that they say has forced them to take up the polluting practice.

Gora Singh Chaina, a farmer from Punjab, says the government itself promoted chemical-based farming which leaves farmers with no option but to engage in straw burning. “Why did it promote farming of just wheat and rice leaving no time for soil to replenish itself?”

“The government always gave more subsidy and mechanised chemical farming is basically rotational farming of wheat and rice. Farmers who are growing only these two crops are forced to burn the stubble as they are not growing pulses, which can replenish the soil’s lost nutrients. They also have very little time between the harvesting and sowing of the two crops,” said Mr. Chaina.

He and his brethren assured that if the government helped in utilisation of the straw, they would check straw burning.

Umendra Dutt, Executive Director of NGO Kheti Virasat Mission, is also blaming the government for adopting ill-conceived agriculture model and failing to give incentives to farmers.

Vikrant, a farmer from Noida, says very few farmers in NCR are indulging in straw burning because now whatever straw remains is consumed by cattle. “Farmers should not be fined as they already suffer the brunt of climate change, bad returns for their crops and expensive pesticides,” said Mr. Vikrant.

The Hindu, 9 November, 2015, http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/farmers-blame-govts-agriculture-model-for-straw-burning/article7860810.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaig


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