Madhya Pradesh has bagged the unwanted record of being India’s leading stubble burning state for the second consecutive year. Madhya Pradesh has recorded nearly half of all crop-fire incidents across six northern states, as per the new data. However, this unwanted record has led to air pollution across the state causing hazardous health related issues. According to the data obtained from the Consortium for Research on Agroecosystem Monitoring and Modelling from Space (CREAMS) at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), part of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research in New Delhi, 28,529 crop residue-burning incidents have been reported so far this year across Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and Rajasthan.
While MP recorded half of these event (14,165), UP and Punjab followed with 5,803 incidents and 5,092 incidents respectively. Delhi, the capital of the nation with the worst AQI however, recorded just five cases of agricultural burning.
Paddy Cultivation and Stubble Burning – The two Sides of a Coin
A comparative study on crop residue burning depicts that while on one hand Punjab has significantly reduced the number of stubble burning cases, their trend continues to increase in Madhya Pradesh. As per the experts, the main reason behind the rapidly increasing field fires cases in MP is the spike in paddy cultivation and a lack of proper management of stubble in Sheopur. Trends suggest that five to six years back, the main Kharif crops in the village were soybean and black gram, which are now being grown in only 30 per cent of the fields. The remaining 70 per cent area is under paddy. This clearly depicts that as the cultivation of paddy increased in MP so do the cases of agricultural burning.
While the good amount of paddy cultivation positively impacts the image of Madhya Pradesh, high cases of stubble burning cause the negative climate impact. In this context, farmers in Madhya Pradesh say that farming is difficult without burning stubble. The soil here is hard. So, wheat has to be planted early. There are barely 10 days between harvesting paddy and sowing wheat. In such a situation, stubble burning is a compulsion for farmers.
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