Bathinda: burning residue plants have taken steps in Punjab in the last three days.
With 597 burning incidence of plant residues on Thursday, the count reached 4,327, which was still less than the previous year when the burning of plant residue cases was recorded at 9,444 on October 21.
Shooting events in the ongoing rice harvest season, however exceeded being recorded in 2019 at 3,584 on October 21.
The plant burning event on Thursday was recorded maximally in four districts bordering Tarn Taran topping chart in 162 cases, followed by Gurdaspur (52) and Ferozepur (50).
Pathankot, who has a track record that burns low mount, has not recorded a case so far.
Previously, 788 combustion events were recorded on October 20 and 496 on October 19.
Like 597 cases of burning were recorded on Thursday, this 825 in 2019 and 1,379 in 2020 on October 21.
According to the source of the Ministry of Agriculture, combustion is expected to increase further as a farmer has started rice harvests after facing bad weather for several days.
Bio decomposition trials have not started in Punjab even though the state government claims that 3,000 experiments will be made in the ongoing season to withstand the propellers.
Until now, 8,500 Nodal officers have been appointed in Punjab to see burned cases.