 "This has led to incidents of stubble burning, as the farmers burn the paddy residue to sow wheat. Unlike previous years, the number of stubble burning incidents has reduced considerably this year. From the onset of the stubble burning season (widely")
Paddy stubble burning is down, a trend that has sharpened on the back of three years of decline. This year, the first 25 days of the stubble-burning season, which runs from September 15 to November 30, have seen a 65 per cent drop, with Punjab and Haryana — the two states that lead in the polluting practice — seeing a dramatic fall of 64 per cent and 96 per cent, respectively.
Madhya Pradesh, which has over the past few years emerged as a new hotspot of paddy stubble burning, has also seen a drop of almost 45 per cent in
