Business Insider – Online

The Punjab government plans to provide more than 22,000 crop residue manage ment machines on subsidy under a Rs 350-crore action plan for the 2023 Kharif season to check stubble burning incidents in the state, said a senior official. Under the paddy straw management plan, the state agriculture department is also targeting zero-stubble burning incidents in seven districts -Gurdaspur, Pathankot, Hoshiarpur, Rupnagar, Mohali, SBS Nagar and Malerkotla and 50% reduction in stubble fire cases in Patiala, Sangrur, Faridkot and Muktsar districts, said the official.