Just three years ago, Harpreet Kaur, 38, worked in a modest hotel, and her husband Ram Singh, 40, served as a foreman at a paddy pellet manufacturing company in Gohana, Haryana, 200 km from their village of Majha in Bhawani Garh, Sangrur district of Punjab. The couple, who have studied up to Class 10, barely made ends meet. Today, they run a successful pellet-making unit that processes between 8,000–9,000 tonnes of paddy straw annually and earning around Rs 50-60 lakh annually. In the process, they prevent stubble burning on at least 3,500 acres of land and provide a sustainable solution to the stubble-burning menace.

Their journey began in 2022, when Harpreet decided to take the bold step of becoming an entrepreneur along with her husband, an expert machinery mechanic who discovered that

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