{"id":216833,"date":"2022-12-02T21:07:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T15:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=216833"},"modified":"2022-12-03T08:41:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T03:11:25","slug":"air-to-everywhere-norths-fewer-farm-fires-were-thanks-to-tech-incentives-some-good-politics-theres-a-wider-green-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/air-to-everywhere-norths-fewer-farm-fires-were-thanks-to-tech-incentives-some-good-politics-theres-a-wider-green-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Air To Everywhere – North\u2019s fewer farm fires were thanks to tech, incentives & some good politics. There\u2019s a wider green lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cAir To Everywhere – North\u2019s fewer farm fires were thanks to tech, incentives & some good politics. There\u2019s a wider green lesson\u201d <\/strong>published in The Times of India<\/strong> on 2nd<\/sup><\/strong>\u00a0November 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 3 \u2013 Environment.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About measures to tackle farm fires.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: This year winter witnessed a significant reduction in farm fires in both Punjab and Haryana. North India\u2019s citizens had slightly better winter air as well.<\/p>\n

About the recent reduction in farm fires<\/h5>\n

Farm fires are down by 30% and 48% over last year in Punjab and Haryana respectively. This may be Punjab\u2019s lowest farm fire count since 2012. This reflects the concerted attempt by Punjab and Haryana officials to deter farmers from setting fields on fire.<\/p>\n

This is done by<\/p>\n

a)<\/strong> In-situ straw management<\/strong>: This is done through super-seeders, which plough the straw back into the soil. Super-seeder machines gained popularity over the previous generation happy-seeders is a promising development.<\/p>\n

b)<\/strong> Ex-situ baling of the straw<\/strong> for sale to biogas plants, industries with captive power plants, and fodder suppliers were heavily promoted this year.<\/p>\n

c)<\/strong> Other measures<\/strong>: Centre\u2019s Commission for Air Quality Management, in which the affected NCR states are stakeholders, has released ample funds.<\/p>\n

The key then is to sustain these gains next year and the years after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more:\u00a0Stubble burning: Addressing north India\u2019s burning issue sustainably<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
What needs to be done to reduce farm fires further?<\/h5>\n

ICAR\u2019s bio-decomposer<\/strong> appeared to not find much favour, given the short window between kharif harvest and rabi sowing this year. This has to be promoted.<\/p>\n

India should focus on even bigger environmental challenges.\u00a0<\/strong>Such as weaning off coal, using a mix of technology, promoting government-backed incentives and funds to address environmental challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cAir To Everywhere – North\u2019s fewer farm fires were thanks to tech, incentives & some good politics. There\u2019s a wider green lesson\u201d published in The Times of India on 2nd\u00a0November 2022. Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Environment. Relevance: About measures to tackle farm fires. News: This year winter witnessed… Continue reading Air To Everywhere – North\u2019s fewer farm fires were thanks to tech, incentives & some good politics. There\u2019s a wider green lesson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10496],"class_list":["post-216833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704798882},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}