India, Nov. 21 -- New Delhi: The Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) sprayed the "Pusa De-composer" solution last month in order to prevent stubble burning in Delhi. Every year, crop burning in the winter months causes environmental issues and pollution in the entire north India stretch from Punjab to Bihar. The IARI, under the leadership of Principal Scientist Livleen Shukla and her research fellow, has developed decomposer capsules which help to hasten the process of decomposition of stubble.

Shukla told The Sunday Guardian, "We started working on this decomposer in 2010. At that time, the issue of crop burning and pollution was not as serious as it is now. After much research and trial runs, we came up with these capsules in...