Stubble Burning: Environmental Impact and Sustainable Management

Abstract

Although combustion is a necessary human activity, the poisons produced by the incomplete process and its consequences have caused social turmoil. The consequences of declining health are unknown to the general public: environmental damage, biodiversity loss, and deterioration of product quality. Despite the authorities' sideways application of strategic planning to mitigate the consequences on the population and industrial infrastructure, the local populace still doesn't fully understand. Despite the importance of this subject, not much research has been done on it thus far. The current review aimed to find the underlying causes, environmental effects, and management techniques of stubble burning, particularly in India. Among the sustainable ways to handle vestiges are in-situ residue management, the manufacture of animal and mushroom feed, composting, biochar manufacture, bio-thermal power plants, and the paper sector. Happy Seeder has emerged as a mechanical and successful in-situ management technique. Farmers can use any of the techniques mentioned earlier to manage their trash in an environmentally friendly way by overcoming the obstacles and lessening the environmental impact, no matter how much land they own.