-National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
This policy brief, developed by the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, to address the roblem of air pollution due to crop residue burning, provides an innovative viable solution to check burning of rice residues, which is a major contributor to air pollution in the early winter months in North-West plains of India. The Academy hopes that the Central and State Governments of the affected States will approve promotion of the simple solution suggested in the brief as complementary approach to the ongoing efforts, to provide a sustainable solution to the problem of crop residue burning. Main advantage of the approach proposed in the brief is that it will improve economic returns to the farmers and will improve soil health, while eliminating environmental pollution from the area covered by the proposed technology, without any extra cost to the exchequer.
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