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Podcast: businessline's State of the Economy Podcast
Episode: When the haze clears. 'Uberisation' of equipment sharing among farmers helps lower farm fires: Deloitte
Description: In this episode of the State of the Economy podcast, businessline’s Subramani Ra Mancombu talks to Viral Thakker, partner and sustainability leader at Deloitte India, about the issues of stubble burning in North India and how Deloitte India focuses on combating this problem.The conversation begins with addressing how the smog over India’s capital, Delhi, signals the severity of stubble burning. Farmers in Punjab, Haryana, and Madhya Pradesh have resorted to this practice due to challenges in clearing their farms between the Rabi and Kharif cropping seasons, aggravated by unseasonal rains.The podcast goes...