{"id":37429,"date":"2025-02-15T18:53:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T13:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=37429"},"modified":"2025-02-15T18:53:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T13:23:38","slug":"minimum-price-for-paddy-residue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/15-02-2025\/minimum-price-for-paddy-residue","title":{"rendered":"Parliamentary Panel Recommends Minimum Price for Paddy Residue to Curb Stubble Burning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS3\/ Economy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>In News<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A parliamentary panel has recommended establishing a minimum price mechanism for paddy residue, similar to the <strong>Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops<\/strong>, to discourage stubble burning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Stubble Burning<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Stubble burning is the practice of <strong>setting fire to crop residue (paddy stubble) <\/strong>left after harvesting to quickly clear fields for the next crop.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is primarily <strong>practiced in Punjab, Haryana, and western Uttar Pradesh <\/strong>during October-November to prepare fields for rabi wheat sowing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stubble burning leads to severe air pollution in <strong>Delhi-NCR<\/strong>, causing smog and high PM2.5 levels, worsening respiratory diseases. It harms soil fertility by destroying beneficial microbes, leading to increased dependence on chemical fertilizers. The practice also <strong>releases greenhouse gases<\/strong> (CO\u2082, CH\u2084, N\u2082O), contributing to climate change and global warming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why Do Farmers Burn Stubble?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Farmers burn stubble due to time constraints <\/strong>between paddy harvesting and wheat sowing.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>High costs of alternative methods<\/strong>, despite subsidies, discourage mechanized residue management.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lack of a fixed market price<\/strong> makes selling paddy straw unprofitable.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Limited awareness and inadequate incentives <\/strong>further push farmers toward burning as a quick solution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key Recommendations made<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Minimum Price for Paddy Residue:<\/strong> A mechanism should be set up in consultation with the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) to benchmark and notify minimum prices annually before the Kharif harvest season.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This price should cover farmers\u2019 collection costs, including labour and machinery expenses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Subsidies: <\/strong>The government should subsidize machinery like happy seeders, rotavators, and mulchers for in-situ paddy straw management.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Promotion of Short-Duration Paddy Varieties: <\/strong>The committee urged state governments to discourage long-duration paddy varieties like <strong>PUSA 44<\/strong> and promote short-duration alternatives.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Developing a National Bioenergy Policy: <\/strong>A unified national policy to integrate agricultural residue into bioenergy production.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Others: <\/strong>Address ex-situ crop residue management costs, provide financial incentives, improve supply chain infrastructure, and raise awareness among farmers to ensure economic viability and environmental sustainability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/india\/governance\/parliamentary-panel-recommends-paddy-residue-msp-to-curb-stubble-burning-impact-on-delhi-aqi\/2491052\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Print<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A parliamentary panel has recommended establishing a minimum price mechanism for paddy residue, similar to the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops, to discourage stubble burning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37430,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37429\/revisions\/37430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}