In earlier days, only a small portion of the stubble was burned. However, in recent times, labour shortages, increased use of harvester technology (which leaves a longer stubble) and lack of market linkages to maximise residue use have all contributed to a significant rise in crop residue burning.<\/p>\n
– <\/strong>In India rice, wheat and sugarcane alone contribute nearly 80% of the agro-residue.<\/strong><\/p>\n – <\/strong>Uttar Pradesh produces nearly a quarter (130 million tonnes) of India’s total agro-residue.<\/p>\n – <\/strong>Punjab, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Bihar are the other top agro-residue producers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n – <\/strong>Nearly 550-650 million tonnes of gross agro-residue<\/strong> is generated in India. Of this, 160\u2013190 million tonnes is available for bio-energy,<\/strong> according to the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In earlier days, only a small portion of the stubble was burned. However, in recent times, labour shortages, increased use of harvester technology (which leaves a longer stubble) and lack of market linkages to maximise residue use have all contributed to a significant rise in crop residue burning. – In India rice, wheat and sugarcane… Continue reading What is the scale of crop residue generation in India?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-142570","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}