The role of social influence in crop residue management: Evidence from Northern India

Lopes, Adrian A.; Viriyavipart, Ajalavat; Tasneem, Dina

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106563

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“…Based on the logit regression model, which is used to understand why the Indian farmers choose each crop residue practice, social influence was found as a significant determinant of residue burning [18]. Additionally, weather (humidity and rain), disproportionate incentives, inefficient straw collection technology, inefficient management from agricultural agencies, lack of logistic facilities (baler machines, storage and transportation), lack of capital to manage straw, and a low level of skills and knowledge were found for Malaysian farmers, where farmers also realized the benefits of rice straw burning due to it having no serious impacts, and being the easier and cheaper option [10].…”

Section: Factors Influencing Farmers' Decision To Choose Rice Straw Management Practices 221 Factors Influencing Burning Decisionmentioning

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“…Additionally, weather (humidity and rain), disproportionate incentives, inefficient straw collection technology, inefficient management from agricultural agencies, lack of logistic facilities (baler machines, storage and transportation), lack of capital to manage straw, and a low level of skills and knowledge were found for Malaysian farmers, where farmers also realized the benefits of rice straw burning due to it having no serious impacts, and being the easier and cheaper option [10]. Although the farmers perceived high risks, few benefits, low acceptance for rice straw burning [10], and an awareness of its adverse environmental effects [18], they retained their burning practice [10,18].…”

Section: Factors Influencing Farmers' Decision To Choose Rice Straw Management Practices 221 Factors Influencing Burning Decisionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Farmers’ Perceptions, Insight Behavior and Communication Strategies for Rice Straw and Stubble Management in Thailand

Sereenonchai

Arunrat

2022

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The adoption of rice straw and stubble management approaches can be affected by various factors. To understand the psychological factors influencing Thai farmers’ adoption of rice straw and stubble management approaches, three integrated behavioral theories were employed: the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), the Value-Belief-Norm (VBN) and the Health Belief Model (HBM). Then, a practical communication framework was synthesized and proposed to promote rice straw utilization for social-ecological benefits to achieve more sustainable agricultural production. Through a questionnaire survey and in-depth interviews with 240 local farmers, a statistical analysis was performed employing cross-tab, stepwise multiple linear regression, one-way ANOVA and descriptive content analysis using QDA lite miner software. The key results clearly showed that perceived pro-environmental personal norms, perceived cues to rice straw utilization, perceived behavioral control, perceived severity of rice straw burning, perceived ascription of responsibility, and the perceived benefits of rice straw utilization were significantly negatively influenced by burning, and that there was a significantly negative difference to non-burning approaches. Meanwhile, cost savings as perceived benefits of the current option of burning showed a significantly positive difference when compared with incorporation and free-duck grazing options. In communication strategies to promote rice straw utilization for achieving sustainable agriculture, key messages should highlight the clear steps of rice straw utilization, as well as the costs and benefits of each option in terms of economic, health, environmental and social perspectives. Moreover, messages designed to promote action knowledge and self-efficacy at the group level, to promote perceived responsibility via self-awareness and self-commitment, and convenient channels of communication to the farmers can help to achieve more effective non-burning rice straw and stubble management.

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Section: Factors Influencing Farmers' Decision To Choose Rice Straw Management Practices 221 Factors Influencing Burning Decisionmentioning

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Section: Factors Influencing Farmers' Decision To Choose Rice Straw Management Practices 221 Factors Influencing Burning Decisionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Farmers’ Perceptions, Insight Behavior and Communication Strategies for Rice Straw and Stubble Management in Thailand

Sereenonchai

Arunrat

2022

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“…Farmers consider open stubble burning as the easiest and most economic option of removal of crop stubbles (Chawala and Sandhu, 2020). The drivers to crop residue burning are an increase in the amount of crop residues due to increase in crop yield (Ravindra et al, 2019), labour scarcity (Lohan et al, 2018), the short time interval between the harvesting of monsoon (Kharif) crop and sowing of winter (Rabi) crop, absence of appropriate crop residue management technology (Shyamsundar et al, 2019), nutritionally poor rice crop residues (Singh and Sidhu, 2014), economic resource constraints, social influence (Lopes et al, 2020) and lack of awareness about the public health issues due to crop residue burning (Kim Oanh et al, 2018;Chawala and Sandhu, 2020). The intensity of open field crop residue burning is determined by the biophysical conditions, agricultural input-output and crop types (Fang et al, 2020).…”

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Nexus Between Crop Residue Burning, Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development Goals Over North-Western India

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The crop residue burning in India particularly North-western India is responsible for air pollution episodes and public health concerns; greenhouse gases emissions and radiation imbalance; and declining soil organic matter and soil productivity. The objectives of this paper are to estimate the crop residue burning and emissions from crop residue burning, to recommend interventions in crop residue management and to propose a crop residue management-bioeconomy model incorporating strategies to sustainably manage the crop residues through interventions that enable waste valorization, food and nutritional security, farmers’ livelihood and sustainable agricultural production system. A national inventory on crop residue burning including the pollutant species was prepared using the IPCC methodology. The crop types included for the estimation are cereals, pulses, oilseeds, sugarcane, cotton, jute and Mesta. The total amount of crop residues generated and burned for the year 2017–18 was estimated at 516 million tonnes and 116 million tonnes respectively. It is estimated that 116.3 Tg of crop residues burning released about 176.1 Tg of CO2, 10 Tg of CO, 313.9 Gg of CH4, 8.14 Gg of N2O, 151.14 Gg of NH3, 813.8 Gg of NMVOC, 453.4 Gg of PM2.5, and 935.9 Gg of PM10. The emission estimates can be a proxy to prepare the national level inventory of air pollutant species from crop residue burning. The crop residue management (CRM) demands a transition from the traditional zone of CRM to bioeconomy zone of CRM, wherein the interventions aim at the sustainability of agroecosystem. The proposed bioeconomy model has a four-pronged strategy that includes smart agriculture practices, waste bioeconomy involving aspirational principles of bioeconomy, capacity building of stakeholders’ and proactive government policy. Sustainable agricultural bioeconomy provides ample opportunities to reduce crop residue burning, increase farmers’ livelihood and decarbonize the agricultural production. India’s efforts and policies can provide lessons for other agricultural regions having similar environmental constraints.

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“…Crop residue burning in Northwestern India has become a regular feature [7] and a source of greenhouse gas emissions [8]. Crop residue burning is driven by factors like labour scarcity [9], short turn-around time [7], socio-economic constraints [10], ignorance of farmers towards public health issues [11,12] and low nutritive value of crop residues [13]. Crop residue burning causes loss of valuable soil nutrients [14], pollution episodes [8] and public health issues [15] [16].…”

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Assessment of Bioenergy Generation Potential of Agricultural Crop Residues in India

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Crop residues are sustainable feedstock for bioenergy production. The gross crop residue potential generated in India is 696.38 million tonnes/year. Cereal crops generate about 364.27 million tonnes/year of crop residues. Cereal crops (rice, wheat, sorghum, pearl millet, maize), sugarcane and horticultural crops (coconut, areca nut, banana) are found to have immense crop residue generation potential. Crop residues of 209.69 million tonnes/ year are available as surplus and can be explored for bioenergy generation. Cereals and sugarcane account for 75% of surplus crop residues. Spatial variations existing between states in terms of surplus crop residue generation are due to crop acreage and crop productivity. Uttar Pradesh generates 116.69 million tonnes/year of gross crop residues and 41.76 million tonnes/year of surplus crop residues. States like Punjab,

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The role of social influence in crop residue management: Evidence from Northern India

Cited by 42 publications

References 21 publications

Farmers’ Perceptions, Insight Behavior and Communication Strategies for Rice Straw and Stubble Management in Thailand

Farmers’ Perceptions, Insight Behavior and Communication Strategies for Rice Straw and Stubble Management in Thailand

Nexus Between Crop Residue Burning, Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development Goals Over North-Western India

Assessment of Bioenergy Generation Potential of Agricultural Crop Residues in India

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