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Amrita Pritam ----She Lived by Her Own Rules Big Hike in Cash Prize for Sports Persons www.punjabadvanceonline.com Gandhi Jayanti (Oct 2) 2 Punjab Advance August 2016 Editorial Where is that glory that reverence the Punjab farmers enjoyed when they put everything at stake to usher in the Green Revolution. They responded to the call of the nation, abandoned the traditional farming methods in the late 1960s and 1970s and fell to the crafty advisers from the US and other countries to grow crops the American way – with chemicals, high- yielding seeds and irrigation. The selfless devotion of the Punjab farmer, saw the nation climb up the lad - der. From a beggar it became an exporter of grains. Yes the country food bowl was overflowing with grains, but at the cost of the dwindling groundwater of Punjab. The new miracle seeds produced far bigger yields, but they came with a catch: The thirsty crops needed much more water than natural rainfall could provide, so the farmers had to dig wells and irrigate with groundwater. The demand for more grains, saw the farmers pumping excessive groundwater to irrigate their crops resulting in a dramatic fall in the water table. The level began to drop more than 3 feet every year. Deeper water table meant high powered tubewells sucking out whatever was left deep down in the earth. The cost went up, the soil also started show - ing damage because of the chemicals. This is where the money lenders came into the picture. Excessive spending on agriculture because of low water table, bad soil and low MSP added to the woes. The mounting debts have taken their toll in farm suicides. The Punjab farmers who were the ‘Anndata’ of the country are today in need of funds. The Centre has a duty towards them. The farmers worked hard and filled the nation’s granaries. Even today they are the main grain produc - ers. The debt-ridden farmers are now being penalized for stubble burning. The Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, knows the plight of the farmer and has made several trips to Delhi seeking compensation for proper paddy management. The ball is in the Delhi court. The Centre has used the Punjab farmer to usher in the Green Revolution, now it is high time the Centre re - payed it to the farmer in cash and kind. Heavens will not fall if compensation is given for management of paddy. October- 2018 Punjab Advance 3 Contents Punjab Advance www.punjabadvanceonline.com Managing a burning LOCTOBER › 2018 issue LVOL›5 L ISSUE›10 C.E.O. N Anindita Mitra (IAS) Editor N Donald Banerjee Designer N Arun Kumar Sharma Publisher N Information & Public Relations Department, Punjab 06 Contact address N Village co-op shows PUNJAB ADVANCE, Room No. 1, 5th Floor, the way Punjab Civil Secretariat, Chandigarh-160001 Ph. : 0172-2740668 [email protected] Disclaimer: The views expressed by the authors in the articles published in PUNJAB ADVANCE are their own. They do not necessarily reflect the opinion of Punjab Government or the organization they work for. Editor reserves the right to edit, abridge or expand the articles submitted. In case of any dispute, legal 12 jurisdiction will lie in Chandigarh based courts. Published and Edited by Ms. Anindita Mitra (IAS) on behalf of the Information and Public The Sardar who led India Relations Department, Punjab at Room No. to Asiad football gold 1, 5th Floor, Civil Sectt., Chandigarh. Page-30 4 Punjab Advance September- 2018 Cleaner Basmati this year PAU Smart School Marked drop in pesticide draws students content 28 14 Amrita Pritam ----she lived by her own rules Big hike in cash prize for sports persons 38 The eyes have it 18 Injecting fluid into joints to ease knee pain Page-44 42 September- 2018 Punjab Advance 5 Cover Managing a b l CM writes to PM for compensation l Awareness campaign works wonders l Sharp fall in stubble burning cases Donald Banerjee he people’s Chief Minister of Punjab, Capt Amarinder Singh, is leading from tThe front in the state government’s efforts to curb stubble-burning. He knows the difficulties being faced by the farmers and has made several trips to Delhi to find a remedy, the latest being a meeting with the Union Agriculture Minister seeking Rs 100 a quintal compensation for straw manage - ment. The Chief Minister even took an aerial tour of the region last week to review stubble burning in the vast fields of Punjab and Haryana. Isolated plumes of smoke was a clear indication of stubble burning in certain areas in spite of the threats of action as well as incentives in the form of subsi - The Cooperative Agricultural Society, Begumpur, dies for machines and equipment and awareness a nondescript village in Nawanshahr district and campaigns. five adjoining villages have shown their aware - Ground reports from various parts of the state ness against paddy burning by going in for proper project a vast awareness among farmers to shun stubble management with the help of the baler stubble burning. In Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Pa - machine tiala farmers from many villages came as a group Unable to afford the high cost of machinery and assured the Punjab Pollution Control Board and with a very short window between the har - that they would not burn straw. vesting of paddy and planting of wheat, small The awareness campaign has spread to the vil - farmers in certain areas say the easiest and fastest lages with 100 farmers from Sangrur villages way to prepare the fields for the next crop is to shunning the practice of burning the crop residue. burn paddy stubble. 6 Punjab Advance October- 2018 Cover urning issue But the government is determined to find a way out. It is confident that there Mechanised route will be minimal cases of stubble burn - Finding mechanised route as the most suitable an - ing this year. As many as 13,100 ma - swer to the problem of crop residue burning, Pun - chines (super stubble management jab is targeting to deliver 24,972 farm equipment system, happy seeders, rotavators, including happy seeder, paddy straw chopper' cut - ploughs, shrub cutters, mulchers) have ter, mulcher, reversible mould board ploughs, shrub already been supplied to farmers, coop - cutter, zero till drill, super straw management sys - erative societies and community hiring tem on combine harvesters, rotary slasher and ro - centres. tavator. “This is in addition to the machines "We have a target to deliver 24,972 machines to that were supplied last year. A majority growers, cooperative societies and custom hiring of the machines (7,062) have been centres by October 15," said Punjab Agriculture bought by individual farmers,” he said. Secretary K S Pannu.However, 8,583 machines Newly appointed nodal officers have been delivered so far, he further informed, have been stationed in 8,000 paddy while asserting that the department was making all- growing villages to check the menace. out effort to achieve the target."With these ma - These nodal officers have been under - chines, the problem of crop residue burning will be taking various activities, ranging from managed to a large extent," he added. holding meetings with farmers, arrang - ing Crop Residue Management (CRM) machines and distributing awareness material in villages, besides making an - nouncements in gurdwaras or by other modes. Punjab Pollution Control Board Chairman Kahan Singh Pannu said he was hopeful of negligible fire incidents this year because of availability of ma - chinery; a major awareness campaign being launched by the government and Punjab against farmers,” he added. Agricultural University; and a more holistic ap - Figures available from the Punjab Pollution proach to shift to compressed biogas as an alter - Control Board (PPCB) and the Punjab Remote native fuel, to be generated from paddy straw. Sensing Centre reveal that 125 incidents of stub - “We, however, will not take coercive action ble-burning have been reported so far this season, October- 2018 Punjab Advance 7 Cover Farmers paying including 96 in Amritsar. Krunesh Garg, Chief Environmental price for Engineer, PPCB, said the incidents re - Green Revolution ported so far were much less compared to last year. “As per the directions of the Na - Punjab farmers are paying the price for helping tional Green Tribunal (NGT), environ - the country usher in the Green Revolution. mental compensation (fine) ranging from These were the words of Suresh Kumar, Chief Rs 2,500 (for one incident by marginal Principal Secretary to Punjab CM, in his keynote ad - farmer) to Rs 15,000 (on those having dress at a workshop ‘The Stubble Burning Conun - more than 5 acres) was being imposed on drum: A Dialogue Between Farmers, Policy Makers those who defied the orders on stubble- and Scientists’ burning. We have imposed environmen - He did not mince words as he slammed the Cen - tal costs on 23 farmers so far this year,” tre for not helping the farmers in the management of he said. paddy stubble and blaming them squarely for pollu - The fewer incidents of stubble-burn - tion, instead of giving them a viable solution. ing than last year seem to be more due to “Once they told us to produce as our land was a delay in harvesting of paddy. Because most fertile. They provided us with seeds as we had of late rains, harvesting has been delayed water. Our farmers worked hard and filled their gran - by a fortnight and is likely to begin in aries. But today the ‘Anndata’ is dying,” he said. earnest only around mid-October. Since “Heavens will not fall if compensation is given for harvesting would end around November management of paddy. If you are giving Rs 40,000 15 and wheat has to be sown before No - crorre for procurement of paddy and rice is being vember 22, the farmers would get just a given to beneficiaries of Food Security Act for Rs 2 a seven-day window to clear the fields.
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