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View: India's choking Diwali smoke billows from a failed farm policyA year of protests caused the government in 2021 to reverse a farm law that would have cut the subsidy bill by deregulating crop prices. In...- IARI trying higher yield in short-duration rice varieties to stop stubble burning in PunjabStubble burning by farmers in Punjab and other parts significantly contributes to air pollution in north India during winters.
- Why Punjab farms continue to burn — and choke DelhiOn Friday, the national capital’s pollution levels had increased by around 75 points, taking overall air quality index to 484, categorised ...
- Air pollution due to crop burning set to fall this yearStubble burning causes massive air pollution triggering a medical emergency in which people are advised to stay indoors and use masks outdo...
- Tackling the world's worst smog in India, one scooter at a timeIn Delhi -- a city caught between Central, state and local govts-- coordination on matters is slow.
- Stubble burning relies on farmers’ awareness, vigil as mechanisation inadequate this seasonThis year, the challenge is stiffer for other reasons too: paddy was sown in a wider area and late in the kharif season, which means farmer...
- Mechanisation promises cleaner winters in north this yearA large number of farmers, cooperative societies, custom- hiring centres has sought funds to purchase including rotavators, happy seeders, ...
- EY Foundation and India Paryavaran Sahayak join hands to improve air quality across North IndiaA study by The Lancet Commission on pollution and health attributed over 2.5 million deaths to ambient air pollution in 2015.
- Rs 100-crore plan to discourage crop burning, improve Delhi airThe state governments will help cooperatives of unemployed youth set up custom hiring centres that will loan out the Happy Seeder machines ...
- 4-fold rise in green solution to burning of paddy stubbleFor the past two years, Manoj Kumar Munjial hasn’t set fire to a single straw of paddy residue in his fields sprawled over 45 acres at Tara...
- State governments have least concern for citizens health: NGT on pollutionThe NGT directed that every state committee should, in their first meeting, notify one district where land use of agriculture is high and m...
- States asked to promote agri-equipment to handle crop residueThe centre asked the states to use machines such as 'Happy seeder', 'Rotavator', 'zero till seed drill', 'Baler', 'Paddy straw chopper' and...
- Delhi pollution: It will cost Rs 11,000 cr over years to combat the situation, says Punjab governmentThe Punjab government said it will cost Rs 11,000 cr over years to combat the situation while experts said the use of harvesters, which lea...
- Do the people have the right to breathe fresh air? Centre reprimands Kejriwal governmentThe environment ministry on Friday called a meeting of environment ministers of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan and Punjab.
- How goats can clean Delhi’s dirty air"The solution lies in finding profitable ways to use the rice stubble. Of these, the most intriguing is the conversion of stubble into goat...
- Haryana government bans farmers from burning wheat stubbleThe Board has approved nine prosecution cases for filing in the Environment Courts against farmers for violation of stubble burning for yea...
- Tech-savvy farmer saves wheat crop in ChandigarhGrains of TruthIkhhlaq.Aujla@timesgroup.comChandigarh: Untimely rains accompanied with strong winds and hailstorm have farmers across north...
- Haryana Agriculture Department distributes turbo happy seeders to farmersThe Haryana Agriculture Department, distributed five turbo happy seeders to farmers in Karnal on Wednesday.
- Punjab Agriculture University experts motivate farmers to adopt resource conservation technologiesPAU experts have laid emphasis on the judicious use of fertilisers, harmful effects of paddy straw burning, saving environment and use of '...
- Good kharif yield expectedDespite the delay in the rains and the lesser than usual rain in March and April, the monsoon picked up later towards the end of June and s...
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