Crop Waste Burning

The stubble-burning season will soon be upon us, causing a massive surge in air pollution again.

Farmers in India are being encouraged to sell their crop waste rather than burn it to help accelerate progress on curbing fires that spread a deadly, choking smog across key cities.

A Punjab court has let off a farmer found guilty of stubble burning, a practice said to be responsible for the increasing air pollution in Delhi and its surrounding areas, after extracting a promise that he will desist from doing so in the future.

A deal between the Punjab government and a Chennai-based firm to set up 400 plants to convert crop residue into bio-energy has raised hopes that stubble burning, which has contributed to a spike in particulate matter and choked Delhi, could end by next year.

As a toxic smog hung over Delhi for a third day and air quality worsened by the hour, the capital has declared a pollution emergency and banned the entry of trucks and construction activity; the odd-even scheme which restricts traffic will apply from Monday to Friday. There are growing calls for bigger government action to tackle what doctors have ...

The stubble-burning season will soon be upon us, causing a massive surge in air pollution again.

Farmers in India are being encouraged to sell their crop waste rather than burn it to help accelerate progress on curbing fires that spread a deadly, choking smog across key cities.

A Punjab court has let off a farmer found guilty of stubble burning, a practice said to be responsible for the increasing air pollution in Delhi and its surrounding areas, after extracting a promise that he will desist from doing so in the future.

A deal between the Punjab government and a Chennai-based firm to set up 400 plants to convert crop residue into bio-energy has raised hopes that stubble burning, which has contributed to a spike in particulate matter and choked Delhi, could end by next year.

As a toxic smog hung over Delhi for a third day and air quality worsened by the hour, the capital has declared a pollution emergency and banned the entry of trucks and construction activity; the odd-even scheme which restricts traffic will apply from Monday to Friday. There are growing calls for bigger government action to tackle what doctors have ...