{"id":147242,"date":"2021-11-17T20:38:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T15:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=147242"},"modified":"2021-11-17T20:42:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T15:12:48","slug":"why-punjabs-short-duration-paddy-varieties-have-not-solved-stubble-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-punjabs-short-duration-paddy-varieties-have-not-solved-stubble-burning\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Punjab\u2019s short-duration paddy varieties have not solved stubble burning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Supreme Court\u2019s suggested a two-day lockdown amid sharp deterioration in the National Capital Region\u2019s air quality.<\/p>\n<p>The government\u2019s efforts in the past decade provided positive results, and the ratio of land under short-duration varieties to the total land under paddy has more than doubled\u2014from 32.6 percent in 2012 to 67.7 percent in 2021.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the issues in stubble burning?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Damage to public health<\/strong> from severe air quality has produced few ideas, that too, suffer from poor implementation.<\/p>\n<p>Despite <strong>heavy subsidies<\/strong> on straw management equipment, farmers keep protesting that these remain economically unviable.<\/p>\n<p>The government failed to recognise that burning <strong>coal, biomass, and farm residue<\/strong> alongside land desertification contribute to 85% of air pollution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Missing inter-governmental action<\/strong>&#8211; The proximate link to poverty, energy needs, waste management, and land degradation demand concerted inter-governmental actions.<\/p>\n<p>Contrastingly, the districts where short-term crop varieties witnessed an increase, have seen a rise in straw burning incidents.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Reasons for the increased straw burning incidents:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The primary reason behind it is the low yield, due to which farmers cultivate an additional set of crops, such as potato, peas, green lentil, between kharif and rabi.<\/p>\n<p>Even those farmers who have grown short-duration varieties, that fetched great prices, have used the time between rabi and kharif to grow a third crop and thereby increased income.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What actions are taken to tackle the crisis?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>New crop variety<\/strong>-The old long-term variety used to leave just 10 days for sowing between kharif paddy to rabi wheat. Farmers started using short-duration varieties, especially PR 126, which give a window of over 35 days to farmers.<\/p>\n<p>-It incentivizes farmers to not use the crop burning methods.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> This post is based on the articles \u201c<strong>Why Punjab\u2019s short-duration paddy varieties have not solved stubble burning<\/strong>\u201d published in <strong>Down To Earth<\/strong> on 16th November 2021 and<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Our airpocrisies: For air quality crisis take aim at farm residue burning, land desertification, not lockdowns<\/strong>&#8221; published in <strong>Times Of India<\/strong> on 16th November 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Supreme Court\u2019s suggested a two-day lockdown amid sharp deterioration in the National Capital Region\u2019s air quality. The government\u2019s efforts in the past decade provided positive results, and the ratio of land under short-duration varieties to the total land under paddy has more than doubled\u2014from 32.6 percent in 2012 to 67.7 percent in 2021. 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