🌾 Stubble Burning & Air Pollution: A Persistent Issue in North India 🚜
The Supreme Court's recent stance on disincentivizing farmers for stubble burning has sparked discussions. Stubble, leftover from rice harvests, leads to air pollution in North India. Quick solutions involve burning stubble to prep fields for the next crop, causing environmental concerns.
Proposed remedies like early harvesting and innovative seed varieties face hurdles—technicalities, weed growth, and delayed maturation. Government subsidies for machinery have limitations due to high costs, while pest issues deter stubble use as fuel.
Encouraging diverse crop production without penalizing farmers might offer a long-term solution to curb stubble burning's recurrence. Let's explore sustainable alternatives to tackle this perennial problem together! 🌱 #StubbleBurning #AirPollution #SustainableFarming #climatechange
Everybody knows burning stubble is a problem. So why do farmers continue doing it? 🤔
To answer this question, we thought we could do a quick primer – a simplified explanation of stubble burning, the alternatives we’ve considered so far and why it’s such a difficult problem to solve.
Read it here: https://bit.ly/3Gfrdti
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