The Economic Times

The agriculture ministry will, in the next two months, run a pilot project for interstate mandi trade through the electronic National Agriculture Market (e-NAM). This will enable a trader with a unified licence from one state to bid online for and procure commodities from another state, government officials said.

The New Indian Express

Around 150 farmers will be organised into one producer group (PG), who will be facilitated to practice synchronised market-linked production of identified crops especially horticulture crops covering around 40 acres in a contiguous manner.

Hindustan Times 

On Sunday, Delhi breathed the cleanest air in November in the last three years and within 24 hours, the pollution levels had peaked to the season’s worst. To find out the reasons for this unprecedented fluctuation, HT spoke to scientists monitoring weather and pollution. Here is how they explained it:

Hindustan Times

Delhi’s roller coaster experience with air quality continued as a day after the city encountered the season’s worst pollution on Monday. The Union government’s pollution forecasting agencies have, however, forecasted that crackers or no-crackers, air quality could again turn bad from Diwali night.

The Sentinel

Sangrur (Punjab: Stubble burning in the northern states of Punjab and Haryana can be completely stopped if the benefits of the Happy Seeder machine are driven home and farmers are incentivized to use it, says the not-for-profit India Paryavaran Sahayak (IPS) Foundation. It has started with ‘ChangeBuddy’ programme in five districts of Punjab to persuade the farmers indulging in stubble burning to use Happy Seeder, which clears the loose straw that creates problems in sowing and thus rules out the possibility of stubble burning.