As the winter months approach and the threat of air pollution in Delhi rises again, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has asked the central government to direct the neighboring states of NCR to compulsorily use Pusa Bio Decomposer in farmers’ fields. So that the pollution caused by stubble can be stopped. Burning can be avoided. We appeal to the central government to compel the state governments to do free spraying of bio decomposer in the fields of the farmers. It is cheap and can be done by each state government. The Chief Minister said that now there is no need to burn stubble, everyone can be free from pollution.
Last year, the Delhi government experimented with the use of Pusa Bio Decomposer on over 1935 acres of land in 39 villages of the capital to find a solution to the age-old issue of stubble burning. According to a study conducted by the Government Development Department, the result claimed that farmers are satisfied with the use of bio decomposer. Farmers across the state bordering Delhi resort to stubble burning after the harvesting of Khaif paddy to prepare their fields for the upcoming rabi season. Stubble burning has been cited as one of the major reasons for the poor air quality that Delhi witnesses in the winter months.
Addressing a digital briefing in Delhi, Kejriwal said that till now farmers have been blamed for stubble burning, while various governments should be held accountable for not coming up with a solution to this age-old problem. Till now we have targeted farmers, even imposed fine on farmers who burn stubble. What are governments doing? The fault lies with different governments, not the farmers, different governments should have given solutions.
The Chief Minister explained the findings of the central government agency WAPCOS, which had audited the use of Pusa bio-decomposer, which was used by the Delhi government in 2020, and said the findings were very encouraging. WAPCOS spoke to 79 farmers from fifteen villages in four districts of Delhi. Sharing the details of the audit report, the Chief Minister said, “90% of the farmers said that within 15 to 20 days their stubble rotted and their field was ready for sowing wheat crop, instead of having to plow their fields. Have to do Six to seven times, now they just had to do it once or twice, organic carbon in the soil increased by 40% compared to previous levels, the amount of nitrogen in the soil increased by 24%, the amount of bacteria increased by three in beneficial fungi. Percentage increased while wheat germination increased from 17% to 20%. Almost half of the farmers agreed that the use of fertilizers which was up to 46 kg per acre had decreased to anything between 36 and 40 kg per acre, with wheat production also increasing by 8%. In other words, from farmers’ satisfaction, to effectively handling stubble, improving soil quality, and even productivity, Pusa Bio Decomposer had many positives to show.
Incidentally, the Delhi government’s own development department had already done a study on the impact of Pusa bio decomposer, but when it approached the Air Quality Commission with a request that the use of bio decomposer should be made mandatory for neighboring states, So the Air Quality Commission gave priority to a separate audit.
Over the next few days, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will meet Union Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav and seek the latter’s ‘personal intervention’ to use innovative solutions to burn stubble in neighboring Delhi.
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