<span style="color: #222222;">In Uttar Pradesh, the Pilibhit district administration is helping farmers in converting their agriculture residues into compost manure. Farmers are also being financially benefited under the MGNREGA scheme.<br />''<br />''The capsules developed by ICAR play an important role in converting agricultural residue into compost and stopping stubble burning. District Magistrate of Pilibhit Vaibhav Srivastava said that farmers are being given 2700 &nbsp;rupees per acre as wages under MGNREGA to dig out pit for decomposing their paddy stubble with the help of ICAR developed capsules.<br />''<br />''In the same way for sugarcane stubble, farmers are being given rupees 1600 per acre.&nbsp; ICAR scientist Dr Loveleen Shukla, demonstrating in the district said that a set of 4 capsules named Pusa Decomposer play an important role in the composing the agricultural residues and stopping stubble burning. Compost manure developed by this method is very rich and without chemicals.&nbsp;</span><br />
News On AIR | December 11, 2019 9:53 AM
UP: Farmers in Pilibhit learning to convert agriculture residues into compost manure