The central government’s policy of not allowing Punjab to diversify is causing damage to the health of people in faraway Delhi.
Crop stubble burning is a nuisance for both humans and the ecosystem as a whole. And the farmer needs a systematic support system to tide over the problem.
The support can come in many ways: central government policy intervention being the most important. Through its current policy, the central government is not allowing the diversification of crops in Punjab.
On the one side, the government is saying farmers need to diversify into other crops, away from paddy, and on the other side, there is an old notification that hinders diversification. Even the Punjab government wants to move away from paddy because it is water consuming, and is drying up underground aquifers at an alarming rate.
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