India, Nov. 15 -- New-age machines can help save costs, water & electricity usageas well as combatthe problenm of stubbles

Baldev Singh is a farmer who owns 31 acres of land and grows wheat and paddy at Talwandi Bhangerian village in Punjab's Moga district.

He switched from traditional rice cultivation - transplanting sprouted seedlings from a nursery into standing water - in the past years to a more sustainable direct seeding - sowing and sprouting on the field. This reduced labour costs and cut down consumption of water and electricity.

Punjab, the nation's granary, is highly vulnerable to the growing impacts of climate change in the form of increasing temperatures and rainfall variability affecting the availability of surface water ...