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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Why Punjab’s short-duration paddy varieties have not solved stubble burning -Vivek Mishra

Why Punjab’s short-duration paddy varieties have not solved stubble burning -Vivek Mishra

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published Published on Nov 16, 2021   modified Modified on Nov 18, 2021

-Down to Earth

Promoted by the government, short-duration varieties now dominate Punjab’s paddy landscape and allow farmers enough time to clear the field without setting them on fire. Why then are straw burning incidents still on the rise?

Gursimran is somewhat dejected as he oversees a combined harvesting machine working his paddy fields. “Though the yield is better than what it has been in the past two years, it is still not as much as I used to get earlier,” he said.

The 32-year-old farmer has been growing paddy in his over 10 hectares (ha) ancestral land in Mansa district’s Sadda Singhwala village since he completed a civil engineering degree in 2014.

Initially, Gursimran cultivated Pusa 44—the most widely sown long-duration paddy variety in Punjab—but decided to shift to the short-duration PR 126 variety in 2019 to increase his income. "The short-duration variety gives me time to grow intermediary crops after harvesting paddy in October," he says.

Ever since the National Green Tribunal asked the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare to resolve the problem of straw burning in 2015 (the efforts were redoubled after the unprecedented week-long smog in Delhi in 2016), the government has promoted paddy varieties that can be harvested in a shorter duration (up to 140 days).

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Down to Earth, 16 November, 2021, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/air/why-punjab-s-short-duration-paddy-varieties-have-not-solved-stubble-burning-80224?fbclid=IwAR1prQ6QKjlmd_6oDmmkSAQF2z0yYQTQh3L5bYoxlE6M1jvJi3lws6G5kGk


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