A post claiming that UP government is procuring stubble from farmers and nearly 5000 quintals of stubble is procured and farmers are given cow dung in return, is being widely across social media platforms. Through this article let’s fact-check the claim made in the post.
Claim: The UP government is procuring stubble from farmers, nearly 5000 quintals of stubble is procured, and farmers are given cow dung in return.
Fact: The Unnao district administration, in order to check stubble burning has launched a unique initiative of barter scheme under which farmers can trade two trolleys of stubble for one trolley of bio-fertilizer (cow dung manure). However, we could not find any credible information regarding the UP government’s procurement of 5000 quintals of stubble from farmers and also about the initiative being implemented across all districts in UP. Hence the claim made in the post is TRUE.
Google search with relevant keywords led us to a few news articles which reported the UP government’s stubble buying initiative. According to these articles, Unnao district administration has launched a unique initiative under which farmers will be provided one trolley of bio-fertilizer (cow dung manure) in lieu of two trolleys of stubble in order to curb the practice of stubble burning.
Another news article which states the same can be read here. However we could not find any credible information regarding the UP government’s procurement of 5000 quintals of stubble from farmers and also about the initiative being implemented across all districts in UP.
To sum it up, it is true that a barter scheme of trading stubble for bio-fertilizer is launched in Unnao district, UP.
