India, Nov. 27 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
Union Minister for Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare, and Rural Development, Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan, is on a one-day visit to Punjab today. During the visit, the Union Minister met farmers, villagers and stakeholders in Ransih Kalan village of Moga and lauded them for their remarkable achievement of not burning stubble for the last six years and for exemplary stubble management, extending his congratulations to all.
Before the main event, the Union Minister spoke to the media and noted that incidents of stubble burning had worried the entire country. He said that while stubble burning may leave fields clean, it also destroys beneficial insects and creates serious pollution p...