Stubble burning circumstances: Punjab has seen a file rise in stubble burning this 12 months and stands at 9,594 including as much as the present air pollution in air. On November 2, 1,921 circumstances of stubble burning had been reported in Punjab, which is the highest variety of circumstances this season. As the window for Rabi crop, wheat may be very brief after the paddy harvest, some farmers set their fields on fireplace to shortly clear off the crop residue for sowing the subsequent crop.
Earlier on October 31, there have been 1,389 incidents of stubble burning in Punjab. Sangrur district is on prime in circumstances of stubble burning the place 345 circumstances of stubble burning have been reported in a single day. 226 circumstances have been reported in Tarn Taran, 200 in Firozpur, 157 in Mansa and 127 in Patiala.
Worst AQI
Following this, the AQI of many cities of Punjab can also be constantly deteriorating. Bathinda’s AQI is 279, Ludhiana (254), Amritsar (218), Patiala (180), Mandi Gobindgarh (262) and Jalandhar (169).
On October 29, Punjab reported 1,068 farm fires together with Sangrur with a most of 181, adopted by 155 in Ferozepur, 133 in Tarn Taran, 83 in Patiala and 66 in Mansa, in accordance with the info of the Ludhiana-based Punjab Remote Sensing Centre. The state recorded 49,922 fireplace occasions in 2022, 71,304 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 massive variety of stubble burning incidents.Â
With about 31 lakh hectares of paddy space, Punjab produces round 180-200 lakh tonne of paddy straw yearly and of which 120 lakh tonne was being managed via in-situ (mixing crop residue in fields) and round 30 lakh tonne ex-situ (utilizing stubble as gas) administration strategies.
