The Centre has said that Rs 1,000 crore will be earmarked in the coming Budget to tackle the problem of stubble burning, among other things, in Delhi’s neighbouring states in an effort to make the air in the capital more breathable and relieve it from the smog that has come to mark its winters.

Appearing before a bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta, additional Solicitor General A N S Nadkarni said the Centre had decided to provide subsidies to farmers to purchase machines like Happy Seeder and Rotavators to deal with farm residue in a manner that does not require it to be burnt.

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The machines cut and lift rice straw and simultaneously sow wheat into the bare soil.

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