Every year after the rice harvest, some 2.5 million farmers in northwest India burn the
remaining stubble to prepare their fields for the subsequent wheat crop. Crop residue …

Burning of rice stubbles is widely practised in Punjab, India, due to a lack of suitable
machinery to direct drill wheat into combine-harvested rice residues. Although burning is a …

This paper reviews the literature on crop residue burning-a widespread practice in many
regions in South Asia. Specifically, we examine evidence from studies highlighting the scale …

The burning of agricultural field residue, such as stalks and stubble, during the wheat and
rice harvesting seasons in the Indo-Gangetic plains results in substantial emissions of trace …

The stagnation of productivity growth in South Asia's rice-wheat systems has led to
increased calls for conservation agriculture based resource conserving technologies. To …

Conducting farmers participatory field trials at 40 sites for 3 consecutive years in four rice-
wheat system dominated districts of Haryana state of India, this paper tested the hypothesis …

Burning agriculture residues has multiple negative effects including local air pollution,
increase in black carbon and contributions to regional and global climate change. This study …

Environmental alarms like climate change and rising air pollution levels in north India,
particularly in the Delhi National Capital Region (NCR), draw attention to the severe issue of …

Residue management has become a new challenge for Indian agriculture and agricultural
growth, as well as environmental preservation. The rice-wheat cropping system (RWCS) is …

In recent studies, various reports reveal that stubble burning of crop residues in India
generates nearly 150 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2), more than 9 million tons of …