India News: NEW DELHI: The Centre aims to work towards achieving zero paddy stubble burning incidents in the current season, agriculture minister Narendra Singh T.
From September 15 to November 7, the cumulative farm fire cases rose to 32,486 including fresh crop residue burning incidents reported on Monday, as per official data.
A total of 1,695 incidents of stubble burning have been reported this year so far from Delhi, its adjoining states and Punjab as against 3,431 farm fires in the corresponding period last year.