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3 months ago

Winter crop stubble burning in North India: A matter beyond the fields

India is headed into winter in a few weeks, which is why it’s timely to recall that stubble burning accounts for 30-35% of Delhi-NCR’s air pollution during October and November. The practice has led to a persistent air quality issue that is driven by the burning of crop residue at this time, mostly in the neighbouring states of Punjab and …

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3 months, 1 week ago

U.P. preparing action plan to curb burning of crop residue

Hindustan Times

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh is preparing an action plan to curb the annual crop residue burning by farmers. Principal secretary, agriculture, Ravindra said, “The months of October and November see a significant increase in incidents of burning of crop residue every year. Ganga Lalwani vs. Union of India and others, mandated the prevention of air pollution caused by burning crop residue. …

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1 year ago

Why Delhi’s air quality remains in the red despite a fall in stubble burning

Live Mint

Sangrur/Sirsa: The air quality in Delhi saw no improvement in November despite a significant fall in stubble burning in neighbouring states, pointing to weather patterns as the probable culprit for what has ballooned to an air pollution crisis in the national capital region. This, it said, is “primarily owing to highly unfavourable meteorology and climate conditions prevailing over the region …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Stubble trouble | Decoding the smog blanket over Delhi

The Hindu

It’s the first week of November and Delhi is blanketed in smog. ‘We burn stubble out of compulsion’ As stubble burning is a significant factor, though not solely responsible for the spike in pollution, as Tripathi says, it also dominates conversations in Punjab. In Rupnagar district’s Rolu Majra village, Pargat Singh, in his 70s, who has cultivated paddy in a …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Is Punjab's crop burning polluting Lahore's air? Pak plans to discuss with India

Firstpost

During a meeting with interim Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar here, Punjab caretaker chief minister Mohsin Naqvi informed him that the main reason for the spread of smog in Lahore is the burning of residues of crops in Indian Punjab Pakistan on Tuesday said it will raise with India at the diplomatic level the issue of stubble burning in Indian …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Stubble fires witness spike in Punjab; 63% rise since 2022

The Hindu

October 04, 2023 08:29 pm | Updated 08:46 pm IST - CHANDIGARH As the paddy harvest, the key Kharif season crop, gains pace in Punjab, the perennial problem of stubble burning, an aggravator of air pollution, is also on the rise. With these spikes in the number of farm fire cases, the Punjab Government’s commitment to reducing paddy stubble burning …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Stubble burning is a big problem for Delhi, Punjab: Will this winter be different?

Firstpost

Punjab has vowed to cut farm fire incidents by 50 per cent this year. From air pollution to hazardous health effects, stubble burning is a major concern Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said that there has been a 30 per cent decline in stubble burning in Punjab since the Bhagwant Mann-led Aam Aadmi Party government came to power …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Punjab Vows to Halve Farm Fires in 2023 Compared to Last Year, Submits Action Plan Before Paddy Harvest Season

News 18

The Aam Aadmi Party-led Punjab government has committed to bringing down stubble-burning incidents in the state by over 50% compared to last year. With the paddy harvesting season set to begin soon, the state has readied a detailed action plan for all its 23 districts. The state’s action plan envisages at least a 50% reduction in fire counts in Punjab …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Haryana banks on in-situ methods to put a stop to farm fires this year

Hindustan Times

Seven months back while presenting the Budget on February 23, Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar had patted farmers for “widely responding” to the state government’s call for reducing farm fires and bringing down active fire location events by 48 % during the 2022 paddy harvesting season. Encouraged by its incentive-driven policies to contain farm fires, the Haryana government’s target …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Clearing the fog on stubble burning

Hindustan Times

Punjab has been in the news of late for, among other things, the issue of stubble burning after harvesting. Apart from the obvious and immediate impact on soil fertility, stubble burning also releases harmful, toxic gases and particulates into the air, causing air pollution and poor air quality in the neighbouring region. The government has promoted technology like the Pusa …

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2 years, 1 month ago

'How can Punjab's pollution reach Delhi?': State agriculture minister on stubble burning; what data reveals

Firstpost

According to Punjab Remote Sensing Centre data, the cumulative farm fire cases between 15 September and 31 October touched 16,004. Punjab during the same period in 2021 recorded 13,124 stubble burning incidents, and that number was at 29,615 in 2020 Despite Delhi’s air quality turning ‘hazardous’ on Tuesday, Punjab’s agriculture minister Kuldeep Dhaliwal on Tuesday said his state cannot be …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Dip in Air Quality Threatening to Dim Festive Cheer? Here's What States Are Doing to Curb Pollution Levels

News 18

For the past several years, many states in Northern India particularly Delhi has been making global headlines for their deterioration in air quality in the days following Diwali and an upscale in activities like stubble burning that has led to a drastic increase in air pollution. Stubble burning by farmers in Haryana, western Uttar Pradesh, and Punjab in north India …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Air quality dips in Gurugram, admin to penalise farmers found burning stubble

Hindustan Times

The district administration on Wednesday said any farmer found burning crop residue will be penalised at the rate of ₹2,500 per acre and appealed to farmers not to burn stubble as it is leads to pollution in the city. A senior district administration said that the objective of the appeal was to ensure that directions issued by Commission for Air …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Punjab: Farmers threaten to dump stubble outside agriculture minister’s office

Op India

On September 24, members of the Kirti Kisan Union threatened that if the Punjab government did not stop taking action against the farmers for burning paddy residue in the fields, they would dump the stubble outside the office of Cabinet Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal in Ajnala on October 5. Satnam Singh, KKU President, said, “More than 95 per cent of …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Punjab farmers want to be compensated to stop stubble burning

The Hindu

As the harvesting of paddy has started in parts of Punjab, the six-month-old incumbent Aam Aadmi Party government is all set to face the stiff challenge of dealing with the perennial menace of stubble burning, with farmers indicating that they will continue to burn paddy stubble unless government suitably compensates them for the expenses incurred on alternative methods of disposing …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Punjab: Over 11,000 crop residue management machines go missing; vigilance probe ordered

India TV News

The Punjab government has said it has initiated a vigilance probe into a Rs 150-crore scam in the distribution of crop residue management machines among farmers during the previous dispensation led by the Congress. Agriculture Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, in a statement on Wednesday, said during a physical verification, a total of 11,275 machines were not found with the beneficiaries …

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2 years, 8 months ago

The world's most polluted capital city

BBC

The world's most polluted capital city Getty Images Smog envelopes much of Northern India in the autumn and winter months, blanketing cities in polluted air that comes with extensive health risks In Northern India, a concoction of seven different fungi could help to thin the smog that pervades the capital city with the worst air pollution in the world. The …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Centre must hold emergency meeting on crop residue burning, says Delhi's environment minister

India Today

The Centre must hold an "emergency" meeting of states neighbouring Delhi to devise a mechanism to deal with crop residue burning due to which the city's air quality has deteriorated, Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai said on Sunday. Incidents of crop residue burning in other states and the air quality in Delhi are linked as deteriorating air quality figures show, …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Agitating farmers insist on legalising parali but rampant stubble burning violates Article 21

Firstpost

Considering the precarious situation, allowing the demand of the so-called farmers to burn crop as a matter of right is an unrestricted and blatant violation of the fundamental right to life of all residents of Delhi-NCR The farmers’ year-long undiluted agitation against the three federal farm laws has evoked support from almost all Opposition parties in India and a section …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Stubble burning: Air quality commission asks states to follow protocol developed by ISRO

Hindustan Times

The Commission for Air Quality Management asked Delhi and its neighbouring states to adopt a protocol developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation for estimation of crop residue burning fire events. “In view of the compelling need to monitor and control air pollution from stubble burning, the commission hereby directs the government of NCT of Delhi to ensure adoption and …

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3 years, 10 months ago

NGT Junks Punjab Govt Plea to Recover Penalty from Defaulting Farmers for Burning Crop Residue

News 18

The National Green Tribunal has refused to entertain a plea by Punjab government seeking directions to recover pending environmental compensation for burning crop residue from defaulting farmers as arrears of the land revenue. The tribunal was hearing a plea filed by Punjab government seeking to recover pending Environmental Compensation for burning crop residue in terms of 2015 judgment from defaulting …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Punjab Sees Maximum Cases of Stubble Burning, Highest in Four Years; Farm Law Anger Key Reason

News 18

Punjab has recorded around 74,000 incidents of stubble burning this season, the maximum in four years, with experts saying anger over farm bills and the government not paying the Supreme Court-ordered financial incentive to farmers could be among the reasons for the spike in farm fires. Following the apex court's guidelines to incentivise farmers to stop stubble burning, the governments …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Stubble burning: Delhi air quality worsens as farm fires rage, farmers blame govts for no solution

India Today

It is that time of the year again. Delhi recorded its worst air quality since February on October 12 as the concentration of fine particulate matters PM2.5 and PM10 increased to their highest recorded levels this season. The main reason farmers resort to crop burning is because help has to come to us,” says Happy Singh, a farmer from Amritsar …

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4 years, 3 months ago

Caught in politics, this is how stubble burning may worsen Covid-19 situation

India Today

Stubble burning is back. A Supreme Court mandated body has written to the Punjab and Haryana governments asking them to take "urgent" steps to reduce stubble burning. Satellite data reports 573 stubble burning cases on September 15. pic.twitter.com/oY9vHgdGa0 — Rahul Kanwal September 22, 2020 In the winters of 2019, when the Supreme Court made scathing remarks over high pollution levels …

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Winter crop stubble burning in North India: A matter beyond the fields

U.P. preparing action plan to curb burning of crop residue

Why Delhi’s air quality remains in the red despite a fall in stubble burning

Stubble trouble | Decoding the smog blanket over Delhi

Is Punjab's crop burning polluting Lahore's air? Pak plans to discuss with India

Stubble fires witness spike in Punjab; 63% rise since 2022

Stubble burning is a big problem for Delhi, Punjab: Will this winter be different?

Punjab Vows to Halve Farm Fires in 2023 Compared to Last Year, Submits Action Plan Before Paddy Harvest Season

Haryana banks on in-situ methods to put a stop to farm fires this year

Clearing the fog on stubble burning

'How can Punjab's pollution reach Delhi?': State agriculture minister on stubble burning; what data reveals

Dip in Air Quality Threatening to Dim Festive Cheer? Here's What States Are Doing to Curb Pollution Levels

Air quality dips in Gurugram, admin to penalise farmers found burning stubble

Punjab: Farmers threaten to dump stubble outside agriculture minister’s office

Punjab farmers want to be compensated to stop stubble burning

Punjab: Over 11,000 crop residue management machines go missing; vigilance probe ordered

The world's most polluted capital city

Centre must hold emergency meeting on crop residue burning, says Delhi's environment minister

Agitating farmers insist on legalising parali but rampant stubble burning violates Article 21

Stubble burning: Air quality commission asks states to follow protocol developed by ISRO

NGT Junks Punjab Govt Plea to Recover Penalty from Defaulting Farmers for Burning Crop Residue

Punjab Sees Maximum Cases of Stubble Burning, Highest in Four Years; Farm Law Anger Key Reason

Stubble burning: Delhi air quality worsens as farm fires rage, farmers blame govts for no solution

Caught in politics, this is how stubble burning may worsen Covid-19 situation