Stubble Burning: Some Sustainable Management Practices to Overcome

  Stubble Burning   Stubble burning  is the deliberate lighting of the post-crop straw on fire. Burning paddy and wheat straws by farmers in Punjab, Haryana, and some areas of Uttar Pradesh has been recognised as a major contributor to air pollution in the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR). Farmers in Punjab and Haryana burned about 23 million tonnes of paddy straw in their fields in late September and early October each year after the crop was harvested because they thought it was a cheap method of waste disposal and would shorten the time between harvesting and preparing the land for the following crop ( Wheat, mustard, gram, etc .). The smoke from burning straws creates a cloud of pollutants that can be seen from space and has been referred to as a  "poison cloud"  in Delhi, leading to the declaration of an emergency about air pollution. The Delhi Government was fined  Rs. 2 lakhs  by the NGT (National Green Tribunal) for failing to submit an acti...