The contractors making stubble bales said that the demand is high.
Garhshankar (Hoshiarpur): Punjab is witnessing maximum number of fire incidents this year as compared to last few years, but many farmers in Garshankar area of Nawanshahr district have not burnt stubble and stubble is burning from their fields. . A unit in neighboring Himachal Pradesh.
Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) officials said that it is good that stubble is being used as energy and they are working to reduce the fire in the field.
“No farmer in our village has burnt the stubble during the paddy harvesting season as the stubble has been picked up by the bale makers. They carry the stubble to a sugar mill in Nawanshahr and a paper mill in Saila, but now a large part is also going to Himachal Pradesh, where it is being used by some unit,” said Charanjit Singh, sarpanch of Panam village. said. “I too have not burnt stubble on my four acres of land for the last several years. Due to less stubble burning in the area, people are getting less respiratory problems.
Farmers say that contractors are coming to their villages to pick up the stubble and out-of-home service.
“In our village too, people come to collect the stubble and make its bale. What more can a farmer ask for as the transportation of stubble requires money and this increases the cost of cultivation,” said Manpreet Singh, a resident of Dhamai village. He said that children and the elderly are getting benefited by this as incidents of stubble burning are less in the village.
The contractors making stubble bales said that the demand is high.
“We collect stubble in Khanna area and supply it there, but after getting an order for the same from a soap centric manufacturing unit in Nangal area of Himachal Pradesh, we thought it would be easier to collect and supply stubble here Will happen. The factory in HP, about 20 km from here, as the transportation cost from here is low. This is the first time in Himachal Pradesh that stubble is being dumped on such a large scale in any unit. The unit needs 50,000 tonnes for power generation, but we will be able to meet the requirement of 30,000 tonnes. Around 20-25 sureties of Nawanshahr and 8-10 sureties of Patiala are involved in this process.
“The villagers from whom the stubble is collected include Bagwain, Guru Ki Bhago, Chak Guru, Bakapur Guru, Garhshankar, Gogo, Maktabpur, Roorkee, Sikandarpur, Ibrahimpur, Chak Phullu, Chak Hajipur, Chak Singha, Rakra, Singhli etc. . We are picking stubble from farmers’ fields free of cost, there are some people who charge some amount from farmers.
Kunesh Garg, member secretary, PPCB, said that he was aware of the use of stubble in distilleries in Nawanshahr and the paper mills there, but he had not heard of stubble being used in the Nangal unit. He said that it is good if it is being used in a unit there and they encourage the use of straw as energy.
FacebookTwitterLinkedinE-mail
,