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Seeding happy, cleaning air: Farmers adopting non-burn tech give hope

Written by Bea Ciordia on July 1, 2021. Posted in In the media.

A paper titled “Fields on fire: Alternatives to crop residue burning in India” and published in the prestigious journal Science found that working with the Happy Seeder—a machine that cuts and lifts the paddy straw while simultaneously sowing the wheat crop and spreading the cut straw as mulch over fields—is not just the least polluting, but also the most scalable solution that can be adopted by farmers en masse.

Can this coincidence help India breathe easier this year?

Written by Mary Donovan on October 23, 2020. Posted in In the media.

“We are unlikely to see big peaks in stubble burning unlike the previous years. The burning of paddy residue is likely to be more evenly distributed across a longer period,” said M.L. Jat, principal scientist at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT).