Modern machinery worth Rs. 1 crore 10 lacs has been provided to the farmers of district SAS Nagar for better management of paddy straw rather than burning it in field and the subsidy amounting to Rs. 73 las 4 thousand has been provided to the farmers for the machinery.Elaborating this Deputy Commissioner Gurpreet Kaur Sapra said that this modern machinery has been handed over to the cooperative societies, clubs and farmers.Sapra said that various other equipments like Happiseeder, Paddy multure, Rotary Slasher, Zero trill drill, Chopper Hydraulic reversible MB play & shrub master and super SMS are provided on subsidy. She said that there are 67 cooperative societies in district and 148 machines have been provided to them. He said that village level awareness is being generated among farmers for not burning stubble in field whereat ill effects of stubble burning are explained and use of machinery for straw management are explained in detail. She said that modern machinery like happiseeder, Rotawator, Zero Trill Drill, Passy Multure & Chopper etc on 80 percent subsidy have been provided to 4 farmer groups in the district.Smt. Sapra said that any farmer willing to use this machinery could approach cooperative societies. She said that farmers are being motivated to adopt crop diversification rather than traditional crops, so that they could gain more. She further said that besides these farmers are being encouraged for starting allied occupations, so that by adopting Dairy, Animal farming, Fisheries and other occupations, they could earn more to become financially stable.