In a bid to tackle toxic air pollution, farmers from Punjab and Haryana are ploughing stubble back into the soil instead of burning it. The smoke emitting from paddy fields are a big cause of air pollution in Delhi during the months of October and November.
In Kalar Majra, a village near Nabha in Punjab, not a single straw was burnt. Close to 60 families farm about 700 acres of land and chose to plough the stubble back to the coil.
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“The government chose our village as a model and gave all the machinery needed to manage the crop residue,” Bir Dalvinder Singh, a Kalar Majra farmer who persuaded his neighbours to heed the government’s call against burning stubble told The Times Of India.