Oct 08, 2018, 10:41AM IST

Source: TNN

Defiant farmers in Punjab province said they would continue to burn paddy stubble in a challenge to the state government ban on burning farm residue to check air pollution. The farmers said that they were aware of the consequences but had no other option but to follow the annual ritual of burning the dry straw. Crop stubble burning has caused one-quarter of the air pollution that blanketed Delhi last November according to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.