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Agriculture Industry
How to define a farmeredit
The Indian Express – Online
Categorising farmers based on dependence on farm income, land ownership is inappropriate. At the heart of the recent debates around the farm laws is the nature of the state intervention in agriculture and the efficacy of the pro-market reforms that are being pushed. Farmer unions are demanding withdrawal of farm laws, but also seeking mechanisms to ensure remunerative output prices.
How climate change is impacting India’s agricultural landscapeedit
Business Today – Online
The recent findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are a clarion call for the entire humankind. The sober assessment of our planet’s future compelled UN secretary-general, António Guterres, to describe the IPCC report as a “code red for humanity”, which means we are reaching a point of no return; it’s a do or die situation for us. The impact of climate change is evident on the Indian monsoon, which has become more erratic and violent over the last few years. The increasing variability in precipitation has resulted in prolonged dry spells followed by a heavy downpour.
Stubble Burning
55% of total stubble burning cases in Punjab this year reported in last 5 daysedit
Hindustan Times – Online
With the paddy harvest almost 70% complete, the spike in the farm fires is visible in the hinterland of the agrarian state of Punjab, with 3,032 farm fires were reported on the Diwali Day; 55% of total cases of stubble burning this year have been reported in the last five days. The number of farm fires thus far this year, at 23465, is still almost half of 44086 cases reported for the corresponding period (till November 4) last year, but most officials expect it to increase over the coming week. On November 4, 3,032 farm fire events were captured by satellite in Punjab. In 2019, there were 5,953 active fires on the same date and ...
Diwali 2021: Firecrackers, stubble burning, weather can trigger air emergency in Delhi-NCRedit
DTE – Online
It is that time of the year again. Incidents of stubble burning in the fields of Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh have increased in the past few days due to delayed sowing and rains through October. If firecrackers are burst on Diwali and the wind direction from Punjab and Haryana towards Delhi is as predicted by weather agencies, the Air Quality Index (AQI) may turn ‘severe’. According to the Indian Institute of Tropical Metrology (IITM) of the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences, the AQI has started deteriorating gradually in the major cities of Delhi and the National Capital Region (Faridabad, Gurugram, Ghaziabad, Greater Noida, Noida). AQI represents 24-hour average air quality data. The air quality ...
Stubble burning emissions account for 36% of Delhi’s pollution: SAFARedit
Hindustan Times – Online
As Delhi’s air quality stayed at “severe” category for the second consecutive day on Saturday, emissions from stubble burning accounted for 36 per cent of the pollution share, Centre-run System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) said. In the last 24 hours, SAFAR added, the PM2.5 pollutants’ concentration across the national capital has become higher than in 2020 but “much less than that in 2018.” “However, it may be noted that local winds have picked up since morning and now the fast dispersion is expected,” SAFAR forecasted.