UP govt to set up biofuel plants to address issue of stubble burning

Will set up 1-2 biofuel plants in all 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh

With the Supreme Court recently directing Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to prevent their farmers from stubble burning owing to the severe dip in air quality in Delhi, chief minister Yogi Adityanath today said his government was already working on an action plan to create a robust value chain to curb the menace.

Addressing a sugarcane department programme in Lucknow this evening, Adityanath said the state government had planned to set up biofuel plants in every district. Farmers could sell the stubble, along with other agricultural waste, to these plants instead of burning it and causing air pollution.

“We are working with