The Punjab Government has formulated an action plan worth 500 crore rupees to provide farmers with the latest Crop Residue Management (CRM) machinery on subsidy and implement other strategies to efficiently manage the paddy straw.

The State has offered a 50 per cent subsidy to individual farmers and an 80 per cent subsidy to farmer groups, Cooperative Societies and Gram Panchayats for the purchase of CRM machines.

To avail the subsidy, the State Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Department has invited online applications from the farmers which can be submitted on agrimachinerypb.com portal from tomorrow, to 12 of next month. This initiative aims to bring stubble burning to zero in the state.