Vadodara: Delhiites will soon appreciate’transparent’ wintry mornings with no choking on smoggy atmosphere brought on by uncontrolled burning of stubble in farms around Punjab and Haryana.
A Gujarat-based biotech company has develop’multi-microbial consortia’ which won’t just place a lid over the ecological wreck, but also enhance the soil quality for a bonus.
Founded by Padma Shri Dr M H Mehta, Gujarat Life Sciences Ltd (GLSL) also recently substituted a federal grant for’Leadership Role in Post-Harvest Stubble Burning Solution’ for the invention.
“We’d been working on resolving the stubble burning difficulty from the northern nations for several decades.
GLSL failed study and development to think of a remedy — Relife — which can set a stop to the air borne menace that’s also causing political issues between Delhi, Punjab and Haryana authorities.
We were able to create microbial consortia around three decades back after which approached the Punjab authorities,” Mehta, a scientist and GLSL chairman, told TOI.
“The Punjab authorities clad from the Punjab Pollution Control Board along with a couple of NGOs and farmers’ bodies to persuade the tillers to utilize microbial consortia.
Relife is used on approximately 400 acres of property and the outcomes have been quite encouraging.
In a few decades, we anticipate that approximately few lakh acres of land from Punjab is going to be addressed by microbial consortia,” Mehta, former vice-chancellor of Gujarat Agricultural University, stated.
He also added that farmers in Haryana also are utilizing Relife.
All the farmers must do is blend Relife with water and then spray the batter.
The microbial consortia transforms the batter into bio-compost which dissipates from the ground during ploughing.
“In India, wheat, rice, sugarcane and cotton are more prone to maximum harvest residue.
Stubble burning is frequently blamed not just for air pollution but also interrupts soil fertility.
It’s also a significant source of greenhouse gases.
In the event the state authorities embrace microbial consortia, then this issue can be managed efficiently,” Mehta added.
GLSL, a biotechnology company based in Vadodara, has been created in 2000 with a goal to develop agro merchandise which ecofriendly, economical and natural.