CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Delhi has multiple sources of air pollution responsible for its air pollution.” The data by System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR), which works under the Union Ministry of Earth Science, however, indicates that stubble burning has its share in Delhi’s air pollution.

Detailed explanation-2: -They also use the stubble as cattle fodder. Another reason farmers in the South do not burn the stubble is that there is no pressure on them to start sowing wheat; in the South, farmers grow other rabi crops such as pulses and millets.

Detailed explanation-3: -Paddy stubble is burnt to clear the field ahead of the sowing of the rabi crop this time of the year, and smoke from the burning contributes to pollution levels in the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

Detailed explanation-4: -With a short period of only 10-15 days between the rice-harvesting season and the beginning of sowing wheat, farmers resort to burning the stubble– left-over straw– to get rid of the paddy residue, Reddy elaborates.