Chandigarh, April 21 -- In a major step towards curbing the persistent problem of stubble burning, the Punjab Government has launched a comprehensive Rs 500-crore action plan to promote in-situ crop residue management (CRM). The initiative, spearheaded by the Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Department, aims to bring the number of stubble-burning cases in the state down to zero.
Punjab Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian announced that farmers can now apply online for heavy subsidies on the purchase of CRM machinery from April 22 to May 12 via the official portal [agrimachinerypb.com](http://agrimachinerypb.com). The plan offers a 50 percent subsidy to individual farmers and up to 80 percent to farmer groups, coop...