Tarn Taran, Amritsar, Gurdaspur account for 60 per cent of stubble burning instances in Punjab
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By PTI
CHANDIGARH: Punjab recorded almost 3,700 stubble burning incidents between September 15 and October 22 and about 60 per cent of those had been in three districts of Majha area — Tarn Taran, Amritsar and Gurdaspur.
According to information from the Ludhiana-based Punjab Remote Sensing Centre, Tarn Taran reported 1,034 stubble burning incidents, most within the state, adopted by Amritsar 895 and Gurdaspur 324.
The state general witnessed 3,696 instances of stubble burning throughout the interval.
Paddy straw burning in Punjab and Haryana is among the causes behind the alarming spike in air air pollution ranges within the nationwide capital area in October and November. And, the state of affairs is usually aggravated by bursting of firecrackers round Diwali.
Paddy harvest is full in 35 per cent of the full cultivated space in Punjab and it’ll choose up in a day or two, mentioned an official of the state agriculture division.
Crop harvesting obtained delayed by at the very least 10 days due to premature rain in September. Punjab has round 30.84 lakh hectares of paddy space on this Kharif season.
Other districts which have up to now seen stubble burning incidents embrace Patiala (246), Kapurthala (214), Ferozepur (187), Jalandhar (169) and Ludhiana (131).
Pathankot is the one district within the state which has not seen a single stubble burning incident up to now this season.
Farm fireplace incidents have picked up because the state has seen a four-fold enhance in such instances since October 10. Till October 10, the state had witnessed 718 stubble burning incidents.
However, the state of affairs is marginally higher this yr as of now compared to stubble burning incidents within the final two years.
Punjab had reported 10,785 and 5,438 such incidents until October 22 in 2020 and 2021 respectively.
On October 22, Punjab noticed 582 energetic farm fireplace incidents. However, on the identical day in 2020 and 2021, the state had seen 1,341 and 1,111 such incidents, in accordance with the information.
Farm fires continued regardless of the state authorities assuring extra crop residue administration machines and launching huge consciousness programmes towards stubble burning.
As the window for the cultivation of wheat (Rabi crop) could be very brief after the paddy harvest, farmers set their fields on fireplace to shortly clear off the crop residue. Punjab generates round 180 lakh tonne of paddy straw yearly.
The state recorded 71,304 such fireplace incidents in 2021; 76,590 in 2020; 55,210 in 2019; and 50,590 in 2018 with many districts, together with Sangrur, Mansa, Bathinda and Amritsar, witnessing large-scale stubble burning.
CHANDIGARH: Punjab recorded almost 3,700 stubble burning incidents between September 15 and October 22 and about 60 per cent of those had been in three districts of Majha area — Tarn Taran, Amritsar and Gurdaspur.
According to information from the Ludhiana-based Punjab Remote Sensing Centre, Tarn Taran reported 1,034 stubble burning incidents, most within the state, adopted by Amritsar 895 and Gurdaspur 324.
The state general witnessed 3,696 instances of stubble burning throughout the interval.
Paddy straw burning in Punjab and Haryana is among the causes behind the alarming spike in air air pollution ranges within the nationwide capital area in October and November. And, the state of affairs is usually aggravated by bursting of firecrackers round Diwali.
Paddy harvest is full in 35 per cent of the full cultivated space in Punjab and it’ll choose up in a day or two, mentioned an official of the state agriculture division.
Crop harvesting obtained delayed by at the very least 10 days due to premature rain in September. Punjab has round 30.84 lakh hectares of paddy space on this Kharif season.
Other districts which have up to now seen stubble burning incidents embrace Patiala (246), Kapurthala (214), Ferozepur (187), Jalandhar (169) and Ludhiana (131).
Pathankot is the one district within the state which has not seen a single stubble burning incident up to now this season.
Farm fireplace incidents have picked up because the state has seen a four-fold enhance in such instances since October 10. Till October 10, the state had witnessed 718 stubble burning incidents.
However, the state of affairs is marginally higher this yr as of now compared to stubble burning incidents within the final two years.
Punjab had reported 10,785 and 5,438 such incidents until October 22 in 2020 and 2021 respectively.
On October 22, Punjab noticed 582 energetic farm fireplace incidents. However, on the identical day in 2020 and 2021, the state had seen 1,341 and 1,111 such incidents, in accordance with the information.
Farm fires continued regardless of the state authorities assuring extra crop residue administration machines and launching huge consciousness programmes towards stubble burning.
As the window for the cultivation of wheat (Rabi crop) could be very brief after the paddy harvest, farmers set their fields on fireplace to shortly clear off the crop residue. Punjab generates round 180 lakh tonne of paddy straw yearly.
The state recorded 71,304 such fireplace incidents in 2021; 76,590 in 2020; 55,210 in 2019; and 50,590 in 2018 with many districts, together with Sangrur, Mansa, Bathinda and Amritsar, witnessing large-scale stubble burning.
