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Don’t Burn Wheat Stubble For Healthy Environment:Haryana Govt

May. 06 Crime, Environment Comments

[Chandigarh]Don’t Burn Wheat Stubble For Healthy Environment In Haryana
The Haryana government today issued an advisory to farmers stating that burning of wheat stubble would amount to prosecution, in a step towards preventing air pollution in the state.
The Environment Department had issued a notification regarding prohibition on burning of agriculture waste in open fields under the provisions of Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981,
Advising wheat growers of the state to use stubble as fodder or convert it into manure, the spokesperson said, the farmers were indulging in burning of wheat stubble and paddy straw every year leading to manifold increase in the air pollution level during harvesting season.
Besides, the soil fertility is also lost due to burning of the essential nutrients as it is estimated that burning of one tonne of rice straw accounts for loss of 5.5 kilo gram (kg) Nitrogen, 2.3 kg phosphorus, 25 kg potassium and 1.2 kg sulphur,
The Pollution Control Board has filed prosecution action against 32 farmers, found burning agriculture waste in open fields in Special Environment Court at Kurukshetra and Faridabad in the past years,

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