Crop residue burning contributes to poor air quality and imposes a health burden on India.
Despite government bans and other interventions, this practice remains widespread. Here …

Northwestern India is known as the “breadbasket” of the country producing two-thirds of food
grains, with wheat and rice as the principal crops grown under the crop rotation system …

The past decade has seen episodes of increasingly severe air pollution across much of the
highly populated Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP), particularly during the post-monsoon season …

Population growth will lead to an increase in food demand, which will exert pressure on crop
production and likely increase the agricultural crop residue. The present study estimates …

The seasonal burning of crop residue significantly affects the environment, leading to poor
air quality over Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) in India. Hence, there have been significant efforts …

Crop residue burning (CRB) is a recurring problem, during October–November, in the
northwestern regions (Punjab, Haryana, and western Uttar Pradesh) of India. The emissions …

Elevated PM2. 5 concentrations frequently cause severe air pollution events in Delhi. Till
recently, the effect of crop residue burning on the air quality in Delhi has not been fully …

This study aims to examine the adverse environmental impact and potential causes of the
dubious agricultural practice of agricultural crop residue (ACR) burning which prevails in the …

Crop Residue Burning: A Threat to South Asian Air Quality Page 1 © 2014. American
Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. Eos, Vol. 95, No. 37, 16 September 2014 EOS …

Biomass burning, a recurring global phenomenon is also considered an environmental
menace, making headlines every year in India with onset of autumn months. Agriculture is …