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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Why Punjab’s farmers are rejecting solutions to curb stubble burning -Vaishnavi Rathore

Why Punjab’s farmers are rejecting solutions to curb stubble burning -Vaishnavi Rathore

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published Published on Oct 26, 2022   modified Modified on Oct 27, 2022

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After years of criticising the state government, the AAP is now in power in Punjab. But farmers remain sceptical of the proposed solutions to the problem.

In early October, the paddy in Punjab’s Sangrur district was in the final stages of ripening. Fields rippled in various shades of green and golden-brown, the latter indicating crop that was almost ready to be harvested.

The picturesque landscape belied a problem that the state had to grapple with soon after, and has grappled with for years: the burning of stubble. After paddy is harvested in mid and late October, the fields are left with a stubble of stalks about two feet high. Because the sowing cycle for wheat begins in late October, farmers have very little time to prepare their fields – so, they typically set fire to the stubble, and then clear the residue.

The practice is widespread in Punjab. Sangrur, in particular, has since 2016 seen the highest number of stubble-burning events in the state every year – in 2021, there were over 8,000 such fires in the district.

Stubble burning has long been criticised for contributing to the immense air pollution of nearby areas, especially Delhi and the National Capital Region. Multiple state governments of Punjab, as well as the Central government, have sought to tackle the problem through various means, ranging from outlawing stubble burning, to providing a one-time cash incentive to small and marginal farmers if they avoided burning stubble.

But conversations with farmers, agricultural experts, and sellers of residue-management machines in five villages in Sangrur in early October indicated that these efforts had thus far met with limited success. “A scaled-up solution to the issue of stubble burning has still not received a push from the government’s side,” said Nirmal Singh, a farmer from Longowal.

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Scroll.in, 26 October, 2022, https://scroll.in/article/1035740/why-punjabs-farmers-have-rejected-solutions-to-curb-stubble-burning


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