Stubble Burning Subject – Environment Context – Roots Foundation to sensitise farmers on stubble burning Concept – Stubble burning in northern India has long been a major cause of air pollution, but efforts to stop it fail every year. Untreated rice straw takes 4-8 weeks to disintegrate which is too long for the […]

Subject: Environment Context: The average air quality index (AQI) of the capital on Saturday was 287 in the ‘poor’ range, as per the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). Stubble burning still remains a significant cause. Concept: Stubble (parali) burning is the act of setting fire to crop residue to remove them from the field to […]

Subject: Agriculture Context: IARI has developed ‘decomposer’ capsules, which when mixed in a water solution and sprayed on land, gets to work on paddy stubble, softening and decomposing it to the extent it can mix with soil and act as compost Concept: Paddy stubble-burning season is here, and satellite remote sensing data from the Indian […]