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Can rice residues be turned into wealth?

Institutional support, monetary and proper implementation of laws along with policy framework can solve this issue, says a state-of-the-art review in crop residue burning in India

Asik Dutta

Kali K Hazra

Chaitanya P Nath

Narendra Kumar

Amitava Rakshit

Posted on 22 Jan, 2023 11:26 AM

Sustainable management of surplus paddy residue in the Indo-Gangetic plain is a back-breaking task for farmers due to lack of viable options. Eventually, farmers prefer to incinerate it mindlessly.

A controlled burn on long-term conservation agriculture trials (Image: CIMMYT)

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