{"id":7523,"date":"2022-11-07T06:21:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T00:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7523"},"modified":"2025-03-28T21:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:45:14","slug":"partial-stubble-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/partial-stubble-burning\/","title":{"rendered":"Partial Stubble Burning"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Partial Stubble Burning:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>After harvesting, farmers opting for partial burning let the loose straw dry for a couple of days and then they set these dumps on fire to prepare the field for the next crop.<\/li>\n<li>In such cases, the standing stubble, which is mostly green, does not get burnt fully but it gets scorched close to those places in the field where loose straw is burnt.<\/li>\n<li>And in the case of air pollution, it will be around 40-50% less as they only burn around 50% to 60% of the total stubble in such cases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Stubble management machines:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The state has distributed 1.05 lakh stubble management machines and a large number of individual farmers and groups of farmers have purchased these machines on subsidy.<\/li>\n<li>Farmers who do not have these machines but want to manage the stubble, get these on rent from farmers groups and cooperative societies.<\/li>\n<li>However, even after having three main machines such as Happy Seeder, Smart Seeder and Super seeder, many farmers are resorting to partial burning.<\/li>\n<li>The three machines ensure that there is no need for partial burning even after harvesting as stubble clearing is not required to sow wheat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/what-partial-stubble-burning-farmers-8253780\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After harvesting, farmers opting for partial burning let the loose straw dry for a couple of days<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}