The Hindu

What if all you had to do to cut down Delhi’s pollution was to buy disposable plates? Swedish giant IKEA hopes to do just that. It has plans to develop products from crop residue on farms to help cut down the need for crop burning in North India. One of those products could be rice-straw plates. The company, which launched in India a few months ago, is the latest to come up with a solution to one of Delhi’s biggest challenges — its annual smog.

The Tribune

After corporates, the country’s premier institutions have pitched in to help out Punjab farmers. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Ropar and Roorkee (Uttarakhand) are offering pragmatic solutions to their problems such as stubble burning and dwindling yield.

The Indian Express

Lauding the role of farmers in emergence of India as an exporter of key agricultural and allied products, President Ram Nath Kovind Saturday termed them “bold in embracing risk and converting risk into opportunity”. At the same time, the President also gave a call to all stake holders and “large-hearted farmers” to come up with a solution to stubble burning.

 

The Pioneer

The issue of stubble burning and ways to tackle the same was the focus of the “Kisan Goshthee” on paddy straw management, held during the ongoing four-day CII Agro Tech India 2018 here on Sunday.

DNA

Guess neither Maharashtra nor Gujarat fathomed that acquiring land would be such a problem. Not only this, the central government had a tough time convincing the Maharashtra government to part with some of its prime lands in Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) for a terminal station.