To get rid of the menace of straw burning in the State, the Punjab Government has announced an incentive of Rs1 crore and Rs1 lakh for each district and village respectively which would be free from stubble burning.
“The decision has been taken to curb the practice of stubble burning, which is not only health hazardous but equally detrimental to the fertility of soil,” said an official spokesperson of the Punjab Government.
He said that only resorting to punitive measures to end this curse would not yield desired results if people were not properly motivated to renounce this anti-environment and pollution causing phenomena.
“It is also decided that the agriculture scientists, environment experts and farmers would join hand for curbing this unhealthy practice with multi-dimensional problems affecting the human health besides creating ecological imbalance. At the same time, the farmers were asked not to join the mad race for sowing one crop after another just to reap maximum profits rather they should be enlightened enough about the disastrous effects of stubble burning, which had far more harmful,” he said.