Burning of crop residue has adverse effect on soil health, human health and also on the environment, have been advocating non-burning of paddy residue and popularization of paddy straw managementtechniques for avoiding environmental degradation and better soil health. Concerted efforts have been made at the district level for creating awareness and managing the problem, through active collaboration of all the concerned departments. Department ofAgriculture and Farmers Welfare, Punjab has provided the subsidy on in-situ paddy residue management machinery to the farmers. KVK, Hoshiarpur has been conducting awareness programmes and frontline demonstrations on these paddy residue management machineries/strategies in collaboration with Department of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare.
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