Indian farmers are burning crops despite their impact on wind quality in nearby areas and the world’s most polluted capital, New Delhi, Which is currently in the throes of a horrific smog situation that has led to restrictions on the use of private vehicles and closed schools.
The air quality of a village in Hariana State is so bad that a small farmer says that this has led to an increase in health problems in family members, Especially her asthma patient uncle who struggles to breathe and needs a nebulizer to pump directly into his lungs.
“We know that burning Khonti is harmful, especially for the health of our parents and children,” Sharma, 22.
But for this resident of the village of Kernal, known for the cultivation of rice and wheat، The only alternative to burning crop residues is to join the line to hire machines to clean up their fields, Reuters reported that it would cost him about $100 for its four-acre farm.
The average waiting time for a machine to be rented, valued at approximately ⁇ INR300,000 ($3,606) in northern India, is two weeks، Which is unbearable for small farmers like Sharma who own four acres or less.
It highlights the challenges facing the authorities in improving the wind of northern India every winter.
More than 85% of Indian farmers have been classified as small, meaning that, like Sharma, they own about four acres or less. Government figures show that together, they control the area of 47% of the country’s crops.
Residents of the areas around Delhi and Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab states experienced the world’s most dirty air last week, Statistics from the Central Pollution Control Board (CP) show.
Delhi has closed primary school and limited traffic on the roads، While the city’s international cricketers have left practice on Monday before the World Cup match.
Khonti burning in Punjab and Haryana is usually 30% to 40% of Delhi’s October-November pollution, According to the Government Air Quality Monitoring Agency System of Air Quality Forking and Research (SAFAR).
In response to government concessions and fines, the government estimates that the number of fires this year has decreased by 40%-50% compared to a year ago, But about a dozen farmers in the village of three Karnal said they would keep burning, Reuters reported.
“No one has been fined in our village so far even though the score has burned Khonti,” said Dharma Weir Singh, He added that he had cleared 10 acres of land in this way and that he had 10-15 more acres for his own and leased land Will.
“I’m coughing every day and feeling irritated in my eyes but would prefer to take some medicine or drink in the evening instead of incurring extra costs.”
