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Haryana: Fatehabad admin files FIRs against 148 farmers for stubble burnin
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Fatehabad (Haryana) [India], Oct 31 (ANI): In a tough stand against stubble burning, the Fatehabad administration on Thursday lodged FIRs against 148 farmers for setting crop residue on fire.
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Haryana: Fatehabad admin asks Agri Dept to lodge FIR against stubble burni
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Fatehabad (Haryana) [India], Oct 30 (ANI): Taking a tough stand against stubble burning, Fatehabad administration has asked the agriculture department to lodge an FIR against 115 farmers for setting crop residue on fire.
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Punjab farmers deny getting help from govt, continue to burn stubble
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], Oct 20 (ANI): Despite efforts by Amarinder Singh led Punjab government, farmers in the state continue to defy the ban on residue crop burning by setting ablaze their agricultural land.
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We will not burn straw if we are compensated for managing stubble, says Pu
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], Oct 19 (ANI): Farmers continue to burn stubble in the district despite the ban imposed by the Punjab government. Farmers say that they will stop burning crop residue if they are suitably compensated by the government for managing stubble.
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Do not blame us for air pollution: Punjab Farmers
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], Oct 18 (ANI): Despite a ban by the Punjab government, incidents of stubble burning have not abated in the nearby areas of Amritsar. Scores of farmers here have been burning crop residue, causing air pollution in the nearby states, while claiming that they lack a
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Haryana: Stubble burning continues in Fatehabad despite ban
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Fatehabad (Haryana) [India], Oct 15 (ANI): Despite a ban by the Haryana government, incidents of stubble burning have not abated in Fatehabad town of the state. Farmers here have been burning crop residue, causing pollution in the nearby states, while claiming that they lack alternatives.
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Stubble burning continues in Amritsar despite ban
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], Oct 14 (ANI): Though stubble burning is banned in Punjab, several farmers in Amritsar continue to burn crop residue claiming lack of alternatives.
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Punjab: SGPC urges farmers not to burn crop residue in reverence to 550th
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Oct 2 (ANI): The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) on Wednesday urged the farmers of Punjab to abstain from burning crop residue in open fields in reverence to 550th Parkash Purb of Guru Nanak Dev.
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Punjab CM writes to PM seeking cost compensation to check stubble burning
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Sept 25 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking cost compensation of Rs 100 per quintal of paddy to motivate farmers against the burning of paddy residue in the open fields, the Chief Minister's Off
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CII Foundation partners with Birlasoft to launch third phase of Project Sh
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 12 (ANI): Birlasoft, part of the 2.4 billion dollar CK Birla Group, and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Foundation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) towards the third phase of 'Shodhan', a crop residue management programme.
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Punjab govt to provide over 28,000 agro-machines to farmers to prevent stu
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Aug 11 (ANI): With a view to making Punjab a 'zero stubble burning state', the state's Agriculture Department has initiated a massive drive to provide more than 28,000 agro-machines to farmers with a subsidy component of Rs 278 crore during the current fiscal
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There has been reduction in incidents of paddy residue burning by farmers,
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 26 (ANI): The government on Friday said that smoke from the burning of paddy crops by farmers in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh contributes to environmental pollution during the winter season, however, there has been a reduction in the incidents of paddy residue bu
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