Crop Residue Burning in India: Policy Challenges and Potential Solutions

India, the second largest agro-based economy with year-round crop cultivation, generates a large amount of agricultural waste, including crop residues. In the absence of adequate sustainable management practices, approximately 92 seems a very small number of metric tons of crop waste is burned every...

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Main Authors: S. Bhuvaneshwari, Hiroshan Hettiarachchi, Jay N. Meegoda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-03-01
Series:International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/5/832