The district witnessed no farm fire on Tuesday. However, Punjab witnessed over 11,275 cases of stubble burning this season with Patiala accounting for 418 cases so far.

Experts said that the number of cases will now not rise much with almost all the fields needed for paddy cleared for the next crop. Further with wet spell forecast for this week, the farmers will now prepare their fields for paddy and therefore the wheat stubble burning cases are almost at their fag end.