Success Story: How haryana getting rid of stubble, farmers’ income also increased with help of deloitte

69 percent less stubble burnt this year

Karnal district is famous for paddy cultivation in entire Haryana. Along with this, there are some villages where there is a lot of stubble burning. That’s why the Haryana government did the pilot test of the Crop Residue Management Project from here itself. This pilot project started this year in this village, which is called by the name of Red Zone i.e. sensitive villages of Karnal district. It was observed that this year there has been a reduction of up to 69 percent in the incidents of stubble burning.

how is it possible

Viral Thakkar, Partner and Sustainability Leader, Deloitte India, explains, “Farm fires between crop cycles are a major problem across northern India. This has a significant impact on the environment. Also humans have to pay a big price for it. One of the many reasons for stubble burning is the lack of timely availability of stubble removal equipment like super seeders and balers. Small and weak farmers are most affected by this. Hence, Deloitte supports this initiative by providing a convenient and sustainable ecosystem. Which helped to overcome the lack of availability of equipment.

Machinery is being made available to the farmers

To address the lack of availability of machinery to the farmers, Haryana State CSR Trust and Deloitte are jointly providing 15 sets of Crop Residue Management Equipment in Karnal district. These include tractors, slashers, hay rex, balers, trolleys and lucky seeders. Thakkar explains that the state’s agriculture and farmers’ welfare department selected the farmers/FPOs/entrepreneurs through a transparent and competitive bidding process.

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Mobile app also developed

Along with providing the machinery to the farmers, Deloitte also developed a multilingual mobile application ‘Krishi Yantra Sathi’. It involved all relevant stakeholders including local farmers, various Custom Hiring Centers (CHCs) and Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs). Now suppose that some farmer does not have machinery and some farmer has surplus machinery. So both the farmers can use it through the app. This not only helped in efficient and faster allocation of machinery, but also helped in faster removal of stubble from the field.

What happened to the stubble?

Indian Oil has set up a plant to make ethanol from straw in Haryana so that we don’t have to burn straw. All the farmers have to do is to cut the stubble from the fields and take it to the plant. Similarly, NTPC has started using straw in the power plant. When farmers deliver stubble there, they get a price of two and a half to three rupees per kg in the season. In the off-season, they get a price of seven to eight rupees per kg. In this way, the stubble which they used to burn for free earlier, they started getting paid for it. Meaning that his income increased.

Now eight more districts will be covered

According to Narhari Bangar, director of Haryana’s Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Department, now this model has been tested successfully. Now the government will implement it in 8 more districts of the state. Now there are plans to cover other villages of Fatehabad, Sirsa, Jind, Kaithal, Kurukshetra, Ambala, Yamuna Nagar, and Karnal. It is worth mentioning that these districts are responsible for almost 90 per cent fire incidents in Haryana.