We are ignoring the simplest solution to the stubble burning problem
Paying for manual harvesting is the cheapest, most eco-friendly and sustainable way out. Government must enable farmers to switch to manual labour to harvest paddy It’s that time of the year again when the air quality in Delhi-NCR and surrounding areas worsens to the ‘severe’ category. Starting from mid-October, the air in the region becomes […]Read More
As most farmers picked matchstick, Malerkotla man picked their paddy stubble, made 16 lakh in a month
The 25-year-old farmer, Gurpreet Singh Kuthala, says he had entered into an agreement with a Sangrur-based based biofuel generation company to provide them 10,000 quintals of paddy stubble. For Gurpreet Singh Kuthala, who dropped out after Class 12, the economics of paddy stubble is very simple. For him, the much maligned farm residue means money. […]Read More