Harvesters Sans Straw Management System To be Impounded

Punjab Geography and Environment

To curb the menace of stubble-burning, the Agriculture Department has ordered that combine harvester machines functioning without super straw management system (SSMS) will be impounded.
Agriculture Secretary Dr Kahan Singh Pannu urged combine harvester operators to fit the SSMS on their machines. He said the government was providing 50 per cent subsidy on the total cost of Rs 1.10 lakh of getting the SSMS fitted on the machines.
Super Straw management System is a new technological innovation in which an additional equipment is attached to the combine harvester so that it cuts standing stubble into small pieces and spreads it on the soil surface. In this, crop harvesting and straw management are done in a single operation through modified combine harvesters.
There are nearly 12,000 combine harvesters in Punjab out of which 5,000 machines have already fitted the SSMS.