Crop Residue Burning in India: Policy Challenges and Potential Solutions [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019 India, the second largest agro-based economy with year-round crop cultivation, generates a large amount of agricultural waste, including crop residues. In the absence of adequate sustainable management practices, approximately 92 seems a very small number of metric tons of crop waste is burned every year in India, causing excessive particulate matter ...
Hiroshan Hettiarachchi +2 more
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Impact of crop residue burning in Haryana on the air quality of Delhi, India [PDF]
Heliyon, 2021 Crop residue burning (CRB) over northern India is a major air quality and human health issue. The present study assesses the impact of PM10, PM2.5, NO2 and SO2, emitted during CRB activities in Haryana on the air quality of Delhi. The transition from pre-burning to burning period, in both rabi and kharif seasons, shows considerable increase in ...
Pallavi Saxena +9 more
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Nexus Between Crop Residue Burning, Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development Goals Over North-Western India [PDF]
Frontiers in Energy Research, 2021 The crop residue burning in India particularly North-western India is responsible for air pollution episodes and public health concerns; greenhouse gases emissions and radiation imbalance; and declining soil organic matter and soil productivity.
V. Venkatramanan +3 more
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Determinants of crop residue burning practice in the Terai region of Nepal. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 The open burning of agricultural crop residue is a key environmental issue facing the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, the Indo-Gangetic plain in particular.
Sugat B Bajracharya +2 more
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COVID-19 pandemic and sudden rise in crop residue burning in India: issues and prospects for sustainable crop residue management [PDF]
Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021 The seasonal burning of crop residue significantly affects the environment, leading to poor air quality over Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) in India. Hence, there have been significant efforts to minimize crop residue burning through policy, innovations, and awareness measures.
Ravindra Khaiwal +2 more
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Burning of Crop Residue and its Potential for Electricity Generation [PDF]
The Pakistan Development Review, 2014 This paper identified the factors influencing the rice crop residue burning decision of the farmers and the potential of the burnt residue to generate electricity. For this study, data were collected from 400 farmers in the rice-wheat cropping system.
Tanvir Ahmed, Bashir Ahmad
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Crop Residue Burning and Its Relationship between Health, Agriculture Value Addition, and Regional Finance [PDF]
Atmosphere, 2022 Crop residue burning (CRB) poses a serious threat to the climate, soil fertility, human health and wellbeing, and air quality, which increases mortality rates and slumps agricultural productivity.
Devesh Singh +9 more
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Can Neural Networks Forecast Open Field Burning of Crop Residue in Regions with Anthropogenic Management and Control? A Case Study in Northeastern China [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2021 Open burning is often used to remove crop residue during the harvest season. Despite a series of regulations by the Chinese government, the open burning of crop residue still frequently occurs in China, and the monitoring and forecasting crop fires have ...
Bing Bai +4 more
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Money (Not) to Burn: Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022 We test whether payments for ecosystem services (PES) can curb the highly polluting practice of crop residue burning in India. Standard PES contracts pay participants after verification that they met a proenvironment condition (clearing fields without burning).
Kelsey Jack +3 more
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Crop Residue Burning: Its Impact and Management
, 2023 India being the second largest agro-based economy with year-round crop cultivation, generates a large amount of agricultural waste, including crop residues. A huge amount of land is used for farming and a wide range of crops are cultivated in its different agro-ecological regions.
Madhusri Pramanik Soham Bachaspati
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