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Farm Pollution: Happy Seeder produces not-so-happy results on ground -Anju Agnihotri Chaba

-The Indian Express Area under paddy stubble burning in Punjab up despite number of machines almost doubling. Jalandhar: Punjab farmers have sown 4.50 lakh hectares (lh) wheat area this time using Happy Seeders. This is nearly 13% of the total 35.08 lh planted under the rabi cereal crop in the state. Not bad, it would seem, for a relatively new technology, which allows wheat to be directly seeded in combine-harvested paddy fields...

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Where are the Happy Seeders that Punjab's farmers were promised? -Rajalakshmi Nirmal

-The Hindu Business Line Fewer straw-management machines were given out than had been sanctioned In Punjab most farmers have their homes right in the middle of their farms. When they clear their field in October to prepare for sowing wheat, they burn the rice stalks left in the field and their homes remain engulfed by smog for weeks. So, if there is an alternative to crop burning, farmers will only be...

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Punjab burned 13% less paddy straw this year while Haryana jumped by 16% -Dipu Rai

-India Today Satellite data shows significant rise in cases of farm fires in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh compared to last year. Chief ministers of Haryana and Punjab have blamed each other for increasing air pollution in cities in North India and other areas by failing to control stubble burnings cases. But satellite data, gathered and analysed by India Today's data team, DIU, shows that Punjab's farmers have burned 13 per cent less...

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Give the Punjab farmer some time -Anju Agnihotri Chaba

-The Indian Express He will sooner or later adopt stubble burning-free technology. Imposing fines or filing FIRs is counterproductive. Jalandhar: Urban residents and the courts may fulminate, but farmers in Punjab and Haryana aren’t anytime soon going to stop burning crop residue from the harvesting and threshing of paddy using combines. They may well choose to harvest paddy with combines that have Super Straw Management System (SSMS) attachments and sow the succeeding...

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It's time to move away from paddy-wheat cropping cycle to end air pollution

  Air quality in North India in general and Delhi National Capital Region (Delhi NCR) in particular plunged to its lowest point in recent years during October-November thanks to a variety of factors. Through media reports one comes to know that stubble burning (also called Paddy straw burning/ crop residue burning) is chiefly responsible for the public health crisis in India's capital and its nearby regions. Data accessed from the website...

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