{"id":86690,"date":"2019-03-27T17:20:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T11:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=3043"},"modified":"2019-03-27T17:20:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T11:50:32","slug":"stubble-burning-menace-emerges-in-kuttanad-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/stubble-burning-menace-emerges-in-kuttanad-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Stubble burning menace emerges in Kuttanad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Stubble burning i.e. agricultural residue\nburning has emerged as a major problem in Kuttanad, which is popularly known as\nthe \u201cRice bowl of Kerala\u201d. <\/li><li>Stubble burning is the practice of intentionally\nsetting fire to residues which remains after the harvest of a crop. It is\nusually done to clear the field quickly for the next season and to burn off\nweeds and other pests.<\/li><li>Stubble burning is pan-Indian problem. However,\nit is most acute in Punjab and Haryana and contributes significantly to air\npollution in Delhi-NCR region. The burning of stubble releases toxic gases and\npose serious health hazard to farmers. <\/li><li>Kuttanad is around broad wetland zone situated\naround the Vembanad Lake in Alappuzha, Pathanamthitta and Kottayam Districts of\nKerala. Farmers of Kuttanad are famous for Bio saline Farming (growing crops in\nsaline environment). Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has declared the\nKuttanad Farming System as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems\n(GIAHS). Kuttanad Farming system is the only system in India that practices rice cultivation below sea level <\/li><li>Globally Important Agricultural Heritage systems\n(GIAHS), started in 2002, is an initiative by FAO which seeks to safeguard and\nsupport the world&#8217;s agri-cultural heritage systems. These traditional\nagricultural systems represent models of sustainable agricultural production<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stubble burning i.e. agricultural residue burning has emerged as a major problem in Kuttanad, which is popularly known as the \u201cRice bowl of Kerala\u201d. Stubble burning is the practice of intentionally setting fire to residues which remains after the harvest of a crop. It is usually done to clear the field quickly for the next&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/stubble-burning-menace-emerges-in-kuttanad-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stubble burning menace emerges in Kuttanad<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4274,4275,4229],"class_list":["post-86690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-globally-important-agricultural-heritage-systems","tag-kuttanad","tag-stubble-burning","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704829931},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86690","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}