Ludhiana / Patiala: It’s not a fog that blurs the view when someone enters the fertile punjab farming university in Ludhiana on this not so good November morning.
The smell was not fresh air and eyes hurt, smog which slipped the beauty of the auditorium from Manchan Singh.
A large banner outside the auditorium was read, “stopped burning stump rice”, showing the recognition of the crisis faced.
Gurpal Singh, a farmer from Tarn Taran, looked carefully one of the many agricultural machines on display, even when he and his friends from various parts of the state distributed elsewhere elsewhere elsewhere.
Gurpal told Tii that he had used Happy Seeder – “zero-tillage” agriculture machines installed in tractors employed to sow wheat after rice harvest who also made stump management – for three years now.
“It is common knowledge that burns agricultural land inhibits his fertility.
It also kills many Mitr-Kitanu (friendly insects).
I stopped burning rice stumps in 2018.
Yes, the cost (from Seeder Happy) is rather high, but the long-term benefits promise,” Gurpal said.
The 60-year-old remembered that his father also did not burn rice: it was only in the early 90’s that the practice became popular as a spiked agricultural expense.
“Choosing to burn stumps out of helplessness and not a permanent solution.
Previously, we did not burn stumps and somewhat mulch and mix it on the ground.
Then, people began to burn the stump of rice to cut costs.
Now we have access to Seeder, the first thing I am Decide to do is turn to the old way of using the latest machine, “Gurpal said.
He also shows that new techniques have greatly reduced irrigation requirements for the 20 hectare field.
Friends and fellow farmers, Satnam Singh, who have 25 hectares under his best, agree.
“There is no difference in wheat results in the past two years.
Instead water requirements have fallen because the soil holds a better moisture,” said Satnam, which, however, increases high diesel costs.
All the same, when burning agriculture has become a general vision in the Punjab countryside, some exceptions in which stumps are not burned but managed in situ or ex situ, have come as a layer of silver.
Although the amount is small, some farmers realize that burning stumps only inhibit their field cultivation and more costs in the long run.
Some of them even reluctantly agreed that burning stumps not only had an impact on Delhi air quality but also their own quality of life.
Jaspreet Singh Jaggi, a third generation of 35 years old farmer from Nabha, agreed.
After the harvest was recently concluded, while his brother was busy getting rice processed in a small shower in the village, Jaggi examined Seeder Smart newest.
“We have used a happy seeder and its variant, Super Seeder.
But access to a machine like it is limited to some,” said Jaggi, added that he tried to prevent others from burning the stump of agriculture.
However, he admitted that the new alternative had not yet captured the imagination of people.
However, Harp Singh is one of the success stories.
“Extraordinary returned” 34 years from Ramgarh Sivia Village in Ludhiana pushed the Ford-3620 tractor with a modified 50-horse, with a happy seeder attached, on his 25-acre land.
He pointed to a farm next to the straw mulch and proudly told us that “this year, they also did not burn stumps, while I have participated in this exercise since 2018”.
Harp said that the whole exercise issued RS 3,500 per Acre, he had participated in the “zero-tillage” agriculture for four years now and the benefits far exceeded costs.
“Irrigation costs have been dipped more than half.
The use of potassium and urea also falls.
Soil fertility increased for years,” said Harp.