Payment for not burning stubble?

My logic, as an environmentalist and campaigner for clean air, is that this will be a perverse incentive, writes Sunita Narain

Should farmers get paid for not burning their fields? This is an extremely contentious issue today because the northern Indian region stares at another winter when stubble is burnt in fields and winds bring the pollution to cities like Delhi — already choking from the spit of vehicles and local sources of pollution. The logic behind this is that rewarding farmers with cash would dissuade them from burning their fields.

My logic, as an environmentalist and campaigner for clean air, is that this will be a perverse incentive. In other words, it will be easily abused so that there is more