crop burning Tag

14 Nov

Posted at 11:01h in Miscellaneous
Dr. Rupender Kaur 12 views

फसल अवशेष प्रबंधन की आवश्यकता Burning of crop residues has a bad effect on the number of micro-organisms present in the soil and burning of crop residue destroys all types of beneficial micro-organisms in the most active layer of soil up to 15 cm. Burning crop residues reduces the number of friendly insects like earthworms, spiders. This does not lead to natural control of harmful insects, resulting in the use of costly insecticides. फसल अवशेष प्रबंधन की आवश्यकता भारत में पहले खेती केवल जीविकोपार्जन के लिए किया जाती थी लेकिन धीरे धीरे खेती ने व्यवसाय का रूप ले लिया है। किसान अधिक उपज प्राप्त करने के लिय अंधाधुंध रासायनिक उर्वरक, कीटनाशकों का प्रयोग...

23 Feb

Posted at 07:30h in Postharvest
A Krishna Chaitanya1*, P Ravi1, Ch Venu Reddy1, P Madhukar1 and M Uma Devi1 23 views

फसल अवशेष प्रबंधन: रणनीतियाँ और चुनौतियाँ Food grain production after first green revolution has increased from 50.82 to 285.21 million metric ton to feed growing population. India during 2020-21 has expected to produce about 122.27 million tons (Mt) of rice, 109.52 Mt of wheat, 51.15 Mt of coarse cereals, 25.72 Mt of pulses and 36.10 Mt of oil seeds (The Economic Times, 2021). With the increase in grain production straw production has also increased proportionally. Current production of crop residues in India is 501.73 million tones. Highest quantities of crop residue are generated in Uttar Pradesh greater than 60 Mt, followed by Punjab and Maharashtra. Among different crops, cereals generate maximum residues (352 Mt),...