India’s Clean Fuel Plan to Combat Toxic Farm Fires Is Stumbling
- Turning rice stubble into biogas would help cut air pollution
- Weak demand and age-old farming practices are hampering growth
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For years, farmer Fatehbir Singh Sidhu harvested his rice and then set the fields on fire. The practice was far from unique — thousands of growers around him in the Indian state of Punjab still do the same to swiftly clear land for the next sowing cycle.