Avoid burning and grow successful wheat crop after combine harvested paddy

摘要

In Punjab, paddy was grown on an area of 30.65 lakh hectares during 2017-18 which was approximately 26 lakh hectares upto 2007-08. As the area under paddy increased, the production of paddy grain as well as straw also increased. Along with this, combine harvesting of almost whole of the paddy area in the state aggravated the problem of paddy straw management. Farmers consider paddy straw burning as easiest way to get rid of left over paddy straw in fields after combine harvesting, although they themselves are aware of the ill-effects of burning on our environment, soil health and human and animal life. Consequently, State and Central governments and PAU took many steps and developed many techniques to curb this problem. We can make this mission of clean environment successful by adopting those suggested techniques.