Urging the Uttar Pradesh government to find a concrete solution to the stubble burning issue, the Rashtriya Kisan Manch has said the state government must draw a road map and involve experts to address the issue.
Pollution levels in Delhi-NCR and surrounding areas have spiked alarmingly in the last few days, leaving the region clouded in thick smog. Stubble burning is one of the major contributory factors.
"Without taking out the stubble, farmers cannot sow the seeds of the next crops. The state government must provide equipment which can actually dig out the farm stubble," National president of Rashtriya Kisan Manch Shekhar Dixit told PTI.
He suggested that the state government must make efforts to highlight the issue and equipment to dig out the farm stubble at an affordable cost in different Kisan Melas and seminars across the state.
"If the government is serious about addressing the issue, it should rope in experts to find a solution to this problem. The possibility of making compost and manure using farm stubble should also be explored by the state government," Dixit said.
He also asserted that "long-term strategy" and "affordable solutions" are needed to address the issue.
A few days back, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had directed the district magistrates to run awareness campaigns, to stop the farmers from burning their farm wastes.
On November 15, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh in Chandigarh had said "farmers cannot be expected to give up crop residue burning completely", till the time they are provided viable solutions.
His statement came when Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal met his Haryana counterpart Manohar Lal Khattar to discuss air pollution and stubble burning.
Farmers of Punjab and Haryana have been blamed for the rising air pollution level in northern states including Delhi triggered by their stubble burning.
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