With the onset of stubble burning season, the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) has deployed 'flying squads' in several districts of Haryana and Punjab to monitor incidents of paddy stubble burning.
After the meeting, CM Yadav told ANI, "Today, the Leader of Opposition of Madhya Pradesh and the Congress MLAs reached the CM's office. We discussed various issues of the state. A positive opposition is very important for the development of the state. Various works done by the state governme
The concerned procurement agencies and officials of the Food and Civil Supplies Department were instructed to complete all the arrangements to start procurement from October 1 on this occasion.
The meeting focused on evaluating ongoing efforts to tackle pollution from various sources, including paddy stubble burning, vehicular emissions, road and construction dust, solid waste management, and diesel generator (DG) sets.
India's Kharif crop sowing has progressed handsomely, with farmers planting crops across 1,104.63 lakh hectares so far, as against 1,088.26 lakh hectares from last year. On year-on-year, it is 1.5 per cent higher.
India has three cropping seasons -- Summer, Kharif, and Rabi. Crops sown during June-July and dependent on monsoon rains are harvested in October-November are Kharif.
A low-cost solar fence that has protected standing crops on three hectares of crop field from depredation by wild elephants at the Mirza area in the Kamrup district of Assam has immensely boosted paddy harvest by local farmers in the last harvesting season.
Farmers in India have sown Kharif crops across 979.89 lakh hectares so far this year, as against 966.40 lakh hectares in the same period of last year, according to the latest data from the Agriculture Ministry.