This post is created by The Better India and sponsored by Wingify Earth.

A resident of #Punjab's Burj Deva Singh village, Gurbachan Singh, stopped burning the crop waste on his farm 20 years ago -- long before stubble burning was recognized as one of the primary causes of the smog that chokes #Delhi-NCR in winter.

Making it his life’s mission, he even made the family of his sons' in-law take a pledge to shun stubble burning before marriage.

"They endorse it too. I even gifted my daughters a machine known as Happy Seeder that cuts the old crop and sows the new seeds. The mulch it leaves enriches the soil", he says.

Gurbachan also has 40 farmers in and around his village to shun #stubbleburning and adopt his technique. His contribution has also been acknowledged by the Tarn Taran district office.

“We have spared 600 equipment like happy seeders, zero tilling machines and rotavators on a rental basis to these farmers through co-operatives", says the DC.

Helping reduce the polluting practice of #stubble burning, heroes like Gurbachan show that where there is a will, there is surely a way.

#WingifyEarth encourages such proactive actions to safeguard Delhi’s trees and keep them clean.

#WingifyEarth in partnership with 'The Better India'