The Agriculture Department in Dhamtari district has started educating farmers not to indulge in stubble burning and instead prepare vermicompost out of post harvest residue.
The Department has informed farmers that stubble burning leads to loss of favourable microbes in the soil while also causing environmental and health issues.
The National Green Tribunal has already announced fines on farmers in case they burn stubble.
The farmers were informed that mushrooms can be cultivated using farm residue.The stubble also helps retain moisture in the soil.
The State government has imposed ban on burning of post harvest farm residue to curb pollution.
Baloda-Bazar District Collector J P Pathak has already constituted different teams under guidance of Tehsildars for monitoring of farms where post harvest residue is being burnt.
The team includes senior Agriculture Expansion Officer, Rural Agriculture Expansion Officer and a Patwari.
The teams have been entrusted to visit the villages to find if any case of burning of post harvest residue in six teshils of the district have taken place.
The Collector has made an appeal to farmers not to burn the post harvest residue . In North India due to burning of post harvest residue, it is causing heavy pollution.
Bemetara District Collector Mahadev Kaware has also issued directives to the Agriculture Department officials to control the burning of post harvest residue.