How goats can clean Delhi’s dirty air


Delhi’s air pollution season is starting with the burning of rice stubble by farmers on lakhs of acres after the kharif harvest. It’s politically impossible to stop a traditional practice like burning through legal bans: farmers think they have a right to burn, whatever the ecological consequences The solution lies in finding profitable ways to use the rice stubble. Of these, the most intriguing is the conversion of stubble into goat fodder.

Burning stubble destroys a useful raw material, pollutes the air, causes respiratory diseases and worsens greenhouse gas emissions. Traditionally, rice was harvested manually. But today’s farm labour shortage means combine harvesters now cut most of the kharif crop in the north-west. Manual cutting leaves only a couple of inches of stubble, but combine harvesters leave 12-15 inches............Read more

 

Source: The Times of India


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