Stubble Burning In Punjab

Pollution levels in Delhi-NCR on Monday morning were recorded around seven to eight times above the government-prescribed safe limit, as a toxic haze persisted over the region >

Agriculture Secretary Kahan Singh Pannu said the compensation has been released directly to the bank accounts of the farmers as per the list supplied by the field officers

"Why people are in this gas chamber? You better finish them all. This wrong is going on for long," the Court said

Burning of crop residue by farmers in Haryana and Punjab is being stated to be one of the major reasons behind the severe pollution levels in Delhi-NCR

The extreme condition has prompted the authorities to order closure of schools till November 15 -- a second time in two weeks

To seek the compensation, farmers have to submit a self-declaration proforma with the panchayat concerned by November 30 for claiming compensation

Will set up 1-2 biofuel plants in all 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh

The governments of Delhi, Punjab, and Haryana are trying to persuade farmers not to burn the stubble. But the farmers are not stopping. What is the solution?

AAP Rajya Sabha MP and senior AAP leader Sanjay Singh said the BJP should apologise to the people of Delhi for politicising a sensitive issue like pollution.

The United States Trade Development Authority (USTDA) signed up to allocate a grant of $300,000-500,00 to Indian engineering firm, The Virgo Group, to carry out a 'scoping study'

All India Bhartiya Kisan Union Coordinator Yudhvir Singh said farmers will take time to switch to other crops but the government should promote crop diversification by providing some incentive.

'The government should give us subsidy on machinery which we buy from other than the empanelled suppliers', says a farmer

Delhi has been witnessing one of the worst episodes of air pollution for the past few days

Wind direction shows stubble plume could increase from Punjab and Haryana, and Delhi facing adverse air quality despite the cleanest Diwali night in the last many years, says Delhi govt

The Ministry of Earth Sciences' air quality monitor, SAFAR, on Monday predicted that the share of smoke from stubble burning in Delhi's PM 2.5 concentration is likely to jump to 25 per cent on Tuesday

Farmers in Punjab, Haryana, and western Uttar Pradesh burn paddy straws to prepare the field for the next crop around October

The chief minister met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi Thursday to press for Rs 100 per quintal compensation to farmers to check problem of stubble burning

Grappling with the menace of stubble burning though the government is aggressively pushing power plants to use atleast 10 per cent of paddy stubble as fuel in state-run power plants, few big farm equipment manufacturers say much more needs to be done to solve the problem as the total paddy straw produced is far more than the total capacity of power plants of power plants in Northern states.Punjab alone according to industry estimates produces around 200 lakh metric tonnes of paddy stubble (around 20 million tonnes) in one single season, while the thermal power plants in the state have a capacity to absorb around 7 lakh metric tonnes of paddy stubble. The state is one of the big producers of paddy in the country and extensively uses combine harvesters to harvest paddy. It along with neighbouring Haryana has currently around 250-odd mechanised balers, which convert paddy straw into biomass, ready for use by power plants.In mechanized harvesting the entire stubble doesn't get uprooted ..