Lawrence says one study shows corn residue can contain $32/acre in the following crop nutrients: nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and sulfur. In testing in rice stubble in the southern U.S., showed ...

After years of strict bans to curb pollution, China is reversing its zero-tolerance stance on crop burning, allowing ...

As temperatures rise, many farmers are struggling to cope with unpredictable impacts on their crops. For example, in northern Japan last year, the proportion of harvested rice that qualified as ...

Farmers in the Northeast have shown a willingness to stop crop burning and switch to a decomposition method instead, saying they are ready to be part of the transition towards sustainable agriculture ...

Deja vu. Must we reconcile ourselves to this annual phenomenon after harvesting the rice crop — of burning the crop residue ...

International collaborative research led by Aakash Project* researchers at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN) show an unequivocal contribution of crop residue burning (CRB) to air ...

Figure 1. Soon after the kharif/summer crops (mainly rice paddies) are harvested, large number of farm fires are detected from the satellites in late October to November over northwestern India ...

Study shows that even during the peak rice stubble burning period, crop fires are not the reason for poor air quality.

International collaborative research led by Aakash Project* researchers at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN) show an unequivocal ...