Farmers in Punjab are increasingly sending crop stubble to recycling units instead of burning it, aiming to reduce winter air pollution that often affects New Delhi.

Farmers in Punjab are increasingly choosing to recycle their crop stubble by sending it to factories instead of burning it, a move that helps reduce the thick winter smog that often pollutes Delhi.

A growing shift from burning crop stubble to recycling it into biogas, fertiliser, and cardboard is offering a real path to cleaner air.

Farmers in parts of Punjab are increasingly sending crop stubble to recycling units instead of burning it.

Farmers in Punjab (India) are recycling their crop stubble instead of burning it, to help reduce severe air pollution

Farmers in Punjab (India) are recycling their crop stubble instead of burning it, to help reduce severe air pollution.

Farmers in Punjab (India) are recycling their crop stubble instead of burning it, to help reduce severe air pollution.

Farmers in Punjab (India) are recycling their crop stubble instead of burning it, to help reduce severe air pollution.

Farmers in Punjab (India) are recycling their crop stubble instead of burning it, to help reduce severe air pollution.

Farmers in Punjab (India) are recycling their crop stubble instead of burning it, to help reduce severe air pollution.

Farmers in Punjab (India) are recycling their crop stubble instead of burning it, to help reduce severe air pollution.

Farmers in Punjab (India) are recycling their crop stubble instead of burning it, to help reduce severe air pollution.

Farmers in Punjab (India) are recycling their crop stubble instead of burning it, to help reduce severe air pollution.

In response to worsening air pollution in the capital New Delhi, many farmers in Punjab state have switched from burning stubble to collecting it and sending it to factories for recycling.

Farmers in over 800 villages of Punjab are collecting crop stubble using balers and sending it to recycling factories instead of burning it.

Farmers in over 800 villages of Punjab are now collecting crop stubble using balers and sending it to factories instead of burning it, helping to reduce the severe air pollution in New Delhi.

Farmers in over 800 villages across Punjab are now adapting to the use of balers to stack the stubble

Stubble burning every winter is a major contributor to New Delhi being one of the world's most polluted cities, with the smoke combining with vehicle exhaust, dust and remaining trapped in atmosphere.

Traditionally, stubble burning has been the quickest way for farmers to clear fields between rice harvesting and wheat sowing, typically in early to mid-November

In Punjab, many farmers have joiined the fight against seasonal air pollution by sending their crop stubble to recycling facilities. This move significantly lessens the winter smoke that blankets New Delhi, as the stubble is repurposed into valuable products such as biogas and bio-fertilizer.