Socioeconomic and Environmental Implications of Agricultural Residue Burning

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Crop residue recycling for economic and environmental sustainability: The case of India

“…Full burning is mainly practiced in IGP where the time between planting and harvesting of succeeding and preceding crop, respectively, is not enough to dispose of the left over residue from preceding crop. In both burning practices, pollution has a severe impact on the environment including reduced soil quality, enhanced soil erosion, and increased air pollutant and greenhouse gases (Kumar et al 2015).…”

“…Therefore, the burning of rice straw results invirtually completeloss of potential energy from bio-ethanol. With increased fuel prices, frequency of weather fluctuation (or debate on climate change), air pollution and greenhouses gases, there is considerable interest among researchers for alternative uses of field-based residues for energy applications (Kumar et al 2015).…”

“…These approachesinclude the use of crop (particularly cereals)residue as fodder, bio-thermal power plants and mushroom cultivation, as bedding material for cattle, production of bio-oil, paper production, bio-gas and incorporation of rice residue in soil, energy technologies and thermal combustion (Kumar et al 2015). Among different strategies, only combustion technology is currently being commercialized whereas the other technologies are at different stages of development.…”

“…Full burning is mainly practiced in IGP where the time between planting and harvesting of succeeding and preceding crop, respectively, is not enough to dispose of the left over residue from preceding crop. In both burning practices, pollution has a severe impact on the environment including reduced soil quality, enhanced soil erosion, and increased air pollutant and greenhouse gases (Kumar et al 2015).With the increased incidence of burning of crop residue, central authorities have been initiating and have been promoting approach to alleviate the problem. These approachesinclude the use of crop (particularly cereals)residue as fodder, bio-thermal power plants and mushroom cultivation, as bedding material for cattle, production of bio-oil, paper production, bio-gas and incorporation of rice residue in soil, energy technologies and thermal combustion (Kumar et al 2015).…”

“…In both burning practices, pollution has a severe impact on the environment including reduced soil quality, enhanced soil erosion, and increased air pollutant and greenhouse gases (Kumar et al 2015).…”