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(1/4) To encourage farmers to stop #stubbleburning, Udhami Kisan self-help group in Khosa Pando village of #Punjab's Moga district set a unique agro-machinery bank.
(2/4) This bank provides agro-machinery -- such as Mulcher, Happy Seeder, Bailer, Zero Drill and Roto Seeder -- at a nominal rent to manage crop residues, particularly #paddy #stubble.
(3/4) The impact has been amazing. Instead of burning stubble, 90% of the village's farmers have started ploughing the paddy residue back into the soil, improving soil fertility and increasing the next yield.
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(1/5) A resident of #Punjab's Burj Deva Singh village, Gurbachan Singh, stopped burning the crop waste on his farm 20 years ago -- long before stubble burning was recognized as one of the primary causes of the smog that chokes #Delhi-NCR in winter.
(2/5) Making it his life’s mission, he even made the family of his sons' in-law take a pledge to shun stubble burning before marriage.

They endorse it too. I even gifted my daughters a machine known as Happy Seeder that cuts the old crop and sows the new seeds.
(3/5) The mulch it leaves enriches the soil, he says.

Gurbachan also has 40 farmers in and around his village to shun #stubbleburning and adopt his technique. His contribution has also been acknowledged by the Tarn Taran district office.
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(1/5) Every year, millions of tons of farm #stubble and crop waste are burned in India — resulting in toxic, air-polluting #smog.
(2/5) Founded by #Pune-based siblings Shubham Singh and Himansha Singh, the #startup #Craste helps prevent this from happening by buying the stubble from farmers and creating products like tree-free #packaging and formaldehyde-free particle boards used to build #furniture.
(3/5) Craste does this through a patented proprietary process - Fumasolv - that separates three main components from crop waste, which are cellulose, lignin and hemicellulose.
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How did Punjab fare w.r.t #paddy #straw burning this year !

This year burnt area is 14.88 lakh hectares Vs 14.17 lakh hectares paddy acreage burnt till Nov 20, last year

Till Nov 21, Punjab recorded 49,526 farm fire incidents Vs 70,879 field fire cases during last year. Image
This year the total area under #rice cultivation in #Punjab is 30.29 lakh hectares, nearly 4.5 lakh hectares is under basmati rice, while the remaining 25.79 lakh hectares is under paddy. Farmers mostly burn paddy areas as basmati stubble is used for making fodder for the cattle.
Out of nearly 26 lakh hectares of paddy area, #Punjab has already burnt #stubble in 14.88 lakh hectares (57% of the paddy area and 48% of the total rice area in the state) till now. Around 3 lakh hectares (20%) of paddy acreage was burnt in just 5 days from November 14 to Nov 18.
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17 ways to manage & utilize paddy #stubble?

6 under in-situ management & 11 under ex-situ management ways #paddy #straw. In in-situ method, Happy Seeder, Super Seeder, Smart Seeder, Paddy straw chopper/Mulcher, Spatially modified zero-till-drill, & Zero-till-drill r used
While in ex-situ method of #paddy straw management, the straws are collected manually and through baler and rake machines after chopping them with other available machines and can be used for 11 different purposes.
#Paddy #straw can be used as fuel in bio-mass/thermal plants, paddy straw-based biogas plants; as fuel in brick kilns through briquettes, ethanol/Bio-CNG production; as compost for mushroom cultivation; as cattle bedding material; for making cardboard/paper; as fodder for animals
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#Stubble burning continues because of the short window between paddy harvesting & wheat sowing in #Punjab.

Now, there is a silver lining.

A new low-cost, environment-friendly & revolutionary method of paddy stubble management & wheat sowing has been introduced by PAU ! Image
This method, propagated by Punjab Agri University will lessen the cost of stubble management & wheat sowing by three to four times as compared to the conventional method, experts said, adding that it can – if put into effect – halt the paddy straw burning in #Punjab like anything
‘Surface seeding' in which paddy harvesting & wheat sowing are done at the same time, an attachment is fitted with the harvester which broadcasts wheat seed & fertilizer at the time of paddy harvest, followed by a single operation of cutter-cum-spreader (3 - 4 inch above surface.
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