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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Economic logic of setting paddy fields on fire -Sayantan Bera and Shrishti Choudhary

Economic logic of setting paddy fields on fire -Sayantan Bera and Shrishti Choudhary

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published Published on Oct 25, 2018   modified Modified on Oct 25, 2018
-Livemint.com

Since the paddy straw cannot be used as animal feed, farmers set fire to it to get the field ready for the next crop of wheat

New Delhi:
On a balmy evening last week, Sandeep Singhroha, a farmer from Haryana’s Karnal district, set fire to a pile of paddy stubble with a matchstick and then dragged the pile across his field with a garden fork. Soon, the two-acre plot was up in flames, making a steady crackling sound interspersed with guitar-like notes as parts of the dried straw burst open in the searing heat. As the fire settled, a thick blanket of smoke covered the field. The impact was immediate: eyes started burning and breathing became difficult.

Every year, through October, thousands of farmers across Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh set fire to an estimated 23 million tonnes of paddy straw. The crop is harvested with combine harvesters, which leaves behind a foot long stubble on the field. Since the straw cannot be used as animal feed, farmers set fire to it to get the field ready for the next crop of wheat. The short window of about three weeks between the harvesting of paddy and sowing of wheat—since a delay in the planting of wheat beyond the first week of November leads to lower yields—means that thousands of hectares of land go up in flames simultaneously. Over the weekend, an estimated 2100 fields were on fire (according to satellite data), which along with the burning of countless Dusshera effigies, plunged air quality across much of northern India to ‘very poor’ levels.

The centre and state governments have proposed machine-driven solutions and incentivized farmers with subsidized machinery to end the practice of stubble burning. But Singhroha will have none of it.

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Livemint.com, 22 October, 2018, https://www.livemint.com/Politics/a1JsRf9EwVks8Q20MAx7aP/Economic-logic-of-setting-paddy-fields-on-fire.html


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