Creating Awareness
Use of regional and community-level tools: campaigns, interpersonal dialogues, and informal networks
A Systemic Approach to Reducing Stubble Burning
Project Parali tackles stubble burning by offering scalable, farmer-first, and sustainable solutions rooted in community change.
From problem to possibility — one field, one village at a time!
Our 5-pillar strategy moves beyond awareness to long-term behavioural and systemic transformation.
Pillar I - Sensitization: “Rethinking the Conversation”
Promoting Behavioural Change
Encourage a mindset shift: from short-term convenience to long-term agronomic and financial gains
Driving Local Advocacy
Engage farmer groups, gram sabha representatives, and agri influencers
Pillar II - Education: “Making Knowledge Practical”
Learn
Apply
Sustain
Pillar III – Demonstration: "Building familiarity with trust"
On-Ground Demonstrations
Establishing Model Farms
Sharing Farmer Success Stories
Pillar IV - Stakeholder Engagement: “Aligning the Ecosystem”
Promoting Sustainable Farming & Circular Economies
- Identify downstream uses of parali: fodder, compost, pellets, packaging
- Align with industry demand to explore viable offtake models
Ensuring Timely Equipment Access
- Map equipment availability at village and block levels
- Coordinate timely deployment to match narrow harvest-to-sowing windows
Connecting Farmers to Industry Networks
- Facilitate links with biomass aggregators and circular economy players
- Support price discovery and structured market access
Empowering Agri-preneurs & Women Entrepreneurs
- Build capacity for rural businesses around baling, logistics & processing
- Promote parali-based product innovation (craft, packaging, etc.)
Stubble burning continues to impact India at a massive scale. Once concentrated in the northwest, the problem is now expanding to new states with rising numbers and shifting patterns.
Pillar V – Collective Action: "Scaling Local to Regional Change"
Collaborative Platforms
- Convene farmer groups, researchers, technology innovators and local governments.
Public–Private Partnerships
- Leverage public schemes together with private-sector innovation.
Community-led Solutions
- Support formation of village-level committees for stubble management and oversight.
Productization of Parali: "From Waste to Wealth"
R&D and Innovation Enablement
- Facilitate applied research on viable parali-based products.
- Focus areas: fibreboard, packaging material, biofuels and compost additives.
- Align R&D with agronomic feasibility and farmer realities.
Business Design & Enterprise Support
- Support early-stage entrepreneurs.
- Build inclusive and locally rooted value chains.
- Emphasize cost efficiency and scalability.
Market Alignment & Viability
- Ensure innovations meet actual industry demand.
- Promote market linkages and offtake partnerships.
- Integrate procurement and policy ecosystems.
