The solution is to shift more farmers of Punjab & Haryana from paddy to vegetables, fruits. Govt has to nudge farmers using incentives & disincentives.
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1. Curbing paddy cultivation may not be easy in the short term. 2. Agricultural scientist Dr. M S Swaminathan has suggested a solution to deal with problem of dealing with stocks of rice stubble on paddy farmers’ farms. He has suggested that the Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh governments could set up ‘Rice BioParks’, where farmers could convert stubble into income and employment. I think this suggestion of M S Swaminathan should be considered seriously and setting up of Rice Bioparks must be given top priority. 3. M S Swaminathan has pointed out that in South India, stubble is not burnt as there’s economic value as animal feed. He has made a mention of many economic uses of rice straw. “We should adopt a do-ecology approach with farmers to convert rice stubble into income rather than making them agents of eco-disaster,” the noted scientist has suggested.
What is it that adds to the air pollution in Delhi and what is its solution?
First things first: We need to save the farmers of Punjab and Haryana and stop blaming them
Dilli population 10000000
Each Dilliwala produces 1.04 kilo of carbon di oxide every day
Total CO₂ produced each day by Dilliwalas by breathing: 10400 tonnes
This creates too much pollution
If Dilliwalas stop breathing then 10400 tonnes per day of CO₂ will be saved
Delhi doesn’t deserve to be the national capital. Let the capital be shifted to some other convenient place. With this change, the overpopulation, overcrowding and pollution issues pertaining to Delhi could be mitigated.
Consider how much of Japan’s GDP is generated in the Greater Tokyo area. Or London, for Britain. These are immense economic engines for their countries. However, they should be planned much better.
Why the focus only on Delhi? The whole of North India is under a thick blanket of smog.
Where are all the scientists in this debate? Sleeping?
All the measures being discussed can reduce pollution no doubt. But this problem will keep coming back, year after year.
The reason is global warming and the geography of the Indo-Gangetic plane – due to the Himalayas which block air circulation. After copious rains in the monsoons, combined with the higher temperatures, there is much more humidity in the air. This traps the pollution.
So while prohibiting crop burning will undoubtedly help, the uncomfortable truth is that unless we cease all human activity, severe winter smog will be a recurring phenomenon affecting more than 600-700 million people. Even if you stop all human activity, just the dust generated during the summer will be enough to cause winter smog.
How to deal with it? Not by appealing to Article 370, but first by understanding the underlying causes.
As an emergency, India’s top atmospheric science scientists should be involved to study the problem with a specific task of understanding all the parameters contributing to this problem. Without that we can’t even move towards a solution.
As a second step, we need different Indian Institutes of Atmospheric Studies whose sole aim should be to study this problem and find solutions.
These suggestions seem out of the world. But it should be clear by now that even as India tries to catch up with the world in being defecation-free, the problem has completely changed.
And India is not the only place suffering due to climate change: California is the other obvious example.
North India now has only one enemy and it is not Jihad or Pakistan: it is global warming and pollution, as well as the Himalayan topography.
My only hope is that the government doesn’t start looking for solutions in the Vedas.
Shekhar Gupta is right that Paddy Cultivation should stop; no free electricity and water be given etc.
But he is wrong about timing of sowing of Paddy Crop. Every farmer knows that paddy was sowed with onset of monsoons ie Mid June or even late. Govt set the date 15 June so that farmers don’t use too much ground water before onset of monsoon. Shekhar Gupta is unaware of traditional crop pattern. It was never sowed before 15 June or soon ( when there was no free water available) in earlier days. Farmers want to sow it early so that the crop reaches market early and they get better price. But sowing early will be at the cost of further depletion of ground water.
Unfortunately there are no viable cash crop options.
The entire system of large scale procurement of food grains – wheat and rice mainly – for the PDS needs to be phased out. That involves shutting down FCI as well. 2. 40% of people living in NCR would like to resettle elsewhere, including Niti Aayog’s CEO. It is cruel to invite foreign leaders to Delhi in winter. Rivers like the Yamuna are little more than flushing cisterns. This is where our Swachh Bharat is failing.
1. Curbing paddy cultivation may not be easy in the short term. 2. Agricultural scientist Dr. M S Swaminathan has suggested a solution to deal with problem of dealing with stocks of rice stubble on paddy farmers’ farms. He has suggested that the Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh governments could set up ‘Rice BioParks’, where farmers could convert stubble into income and employment. I think this suggestion of M S Swaminathan should be considered seriously and setting up of Rice Bioparks must be given top priority. 3. M S Swaminathan has pointed out that in South India, stubble is not burnt as there’s economic value as animal feed. He has made a mention of many economic uses of rice straw. “We should adopt a do-ecology approach with farmers to convert rice stubble into income rather than making them agents of eco-disaster,” the noted scientist has suggested.
Some people should not be allowed to publish their write up.. an article with completely messed up root cause
What is it that adds to the air pollution in Delhi and what is its solution?
First things first: We need to save the farmers of Punjab and Haryana and stop blaming them
Dilli population 10000000
Each Dilliwala produces 1.04 kilo of carbon di oxide every day
Total CO₂ produced each day by Dilliwalas by breathing: 10400 tonnes
This creates too much pollution
If Dilliwalas stop breathing then 10400 tonnes per day of CO₂ will be saved
Delhi doesn’t deserve to be the national capital. Let the capital be shifted to some other convenient place. With this change, the overpopulation, overcrowding and pollution issues pertaining to Delhi could be mitigated.
Consider how much of Japan’s GDP is generated in the Greater Tokyo area. Or London, for Britain. These are immense economic engines for their countries. However, they should be planned much better.
Why the focus only on Delhi? The whole of North India is under a thick blanket of smog.
Where are all the scientists in this debate? Sleeping?
All the measures being discussed can reduce pollution no doubt. But this problem will keep coming back, year after year.
The reason is global warming and the geography of the Indo-Gangetic plane – due to the Himalayas which block air circulation. After copious rains in the monsoons, combined with the higher temperatures, there is much more humidity in the air. This traps the pollution.
So while prohibiting crop burning will undoubtedly help, the uncomfortable truth is that unless we cease all human activity, severe winter smog will be a recurring phenomenon affecting more than 600-700 million people. Even if you stop all human activity, just the dust generated during the summer will be enough to cause winter smog.
How to deal with it? Not by appealing to Article 370, but first by understanding the underlying causes.
As an emergency, India’s top atmospheric science scientists should be involved to study the problem with a specific task of understanding all the parameters contributing to this problem. Without that we can’t even move towards a solution.
As a second step, we need different Indian Institutes of Atmospheric Studies whose sole aim should be to study this problem and find solutions.
These suggestions seem out of the world. But it should be clear by now that even as India tries to catch up with the world in being defecation-free, the problem has completely changed.
And India is not the only place suffering due to climate change: California is the other obvious example.
North India now has only one enemy and it is not Jihad or Pakistan: it is global warming and pollution, as well as the Himalayan topography.
Fine observation.
Thanks.
My only hope is that the government doesn’t start looking for solutions in the Vedas.
Shekhar Gupta is right that Paddy Cultivation should stop; no free electricity and water be given etc.
But he is wrong about timing of sowing of Paddy Crop. Every farmer knows that paddy was sowed with onset of monsoons ie Mid June or even late. Govt set the date 15 June so that farmers don’t use too much ground water before onset of monsoon. Shekhar Gupta is unaware of traditional crop pattern. It was never sowed before 15 June or soon ( when there was no free water available) in earlier days. Farmers want to sow it early so that the crop reaches market early and they get better price. But sowing early will be at the cost of further depletion of ground water.
Unfortunately there are no viable cash crop options.
What a pathetic article. Also force people to use less cars and stop burning coal. These are the main reasons and not the farmers.
The entire system of large scale procurement of food grains – wheat and rice mainly – for the PDS needs to be phased out. That involves shutting down FCI as well. 2. 40% of people living in NCR would like to resettle elsewhere, including Niti Aayog’s CEO. It is cruel to invite foreign leaders to Delhi in winter. Rivers like the Yamuna are little more than flushing cisterns. This is where our Swachh Bharat is failing.