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Thank you for this insightful article. Every time I drive accross European countryside in winter, I think of burning stubble-fields around my beloved home town, Delhi. Here, in Europe, nobody minds that tractors leave stubbles instead of uprooting the spent crop – no crop can grow in winter antway, and the stubble is left in throughout winter to turn into rich compost. For india, can we not design tractors that will uproot the whole plant and then heap it up to rot in a corner of the field?
Modern organic practices are largely inspired by Indian traditional practices (were developped at the Pusa institute in Delhi and in fields of MAharashtra by an Englishman between the two world wars – we can recognise this without spouting nonsense about cows). Can we not go back to our roots to root out this problem?
Thank you for this insightful article. Every time I drive accross European countryside in winter, I think of burning stubble-fields around my beloved home town, Delhi. Here, in Europe, nobody minds that tractors leave stubbles instead of uprooting the spent crop – no crop can grow in winter antway, and the stubble is left in throughout winter to turn into rich compost. For india, can we not design tractors that will uproot the whole plant and then heap it up to rot in a corner of the field?
Modern organic practices are largely inspired by Indian traditional practices (were developped at the Pusa institute in Delhi and in fields of MAharashtra by an Englishman between the two world wars – we can recognise this without spouting nonsense about cows). Can we not go back to our roots to root out this problem?