KENDRAPADA: With the harvest season having ended, numerous farmers of the coastal districts of Kendrapada and Jagatsinghpur have begun burning paddy stubble. As a end result, the areas surrounding the fields have been engulfed in a thick haze.
“I set paddy stubble afire on three acres of land as I have no exchange manner of disposing the residue. It is our compulsion that we have to burn paddy stubble. If we don’t, the sowing of black gram (moong) and potato crop will be behind schedule,” stated Rabindra Pradhan, a farmer of Bharatapur in Kendrapada.
Like Rabindra, different farmers have been burning crop residue in quite a lot of parts of the districts, each throughout the day and beneath the cover of darkness. “Farmers burn paddy stubble as it comes to no value. The thick smoke that emanates as the result of fields being set on hearth poses a health hazard for the folk as it causes respiratory problems. Many trees near the fields are also demise of this smoke. The leaves of the remaining have grew to become black with soot,” Amarabara Biswal, an environmentalist of Kendrapada. He added that native atmosphere activists had time and again asked the Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) and the district administration to forestall the farmers from polluting the air and to do so against them. “But they are reluctant to act against the offenders,” he complained.
Gayadhar Dhal a farmers’ chief and secretary of the district unit of Krusaka Sabha, defined that the burning of paddy stubble was once an age-old follow and it helped make the field ready for any other crop on the end of the paddy harvesting season. “The government have no right to forestall farmers from burning stubble,” he stated.
Dhal additionally stated farmers must now not be victimized as different financial sectors had been similarly accountable for causing pollution. “Last 12 months, the Central Pollution Control Board had recognized Paradip port as some of the polluted areas of the state. Villagers near Paradip and its atmosphere are facing critical air and water pollution from round 15 polluting industries there. Why doesn’t the the officials take motion against them?” he questioned.
When contacted, Mukesh Mahalingam, the regional officer of the OSPCB in Paradip, stated, “The govt has strictly prohibited the burning of paddy stubble in Delhi, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. The Odisha govt is but to do any such thing; hence, we can’t take motion against the farmers who burn stubble.”
“I set paddy stubble afire on three acres of land as I have no exchange manner of disposing the residue. It is our compulsion that we have to burn paddy stubble. If we don’t, the sowing of black gram (moong) and potato crop will be behind schedule,” stated Rabindra Pradhan, a farmer of Bharatapur in Kendrapada.
Like Rabindra, different farmers have been burning crop residue in quite a lot of parts of the districts, each throughout the day and beneath the cover of darkness. “Farmers burn paddy stubble as it comes to no value. The thick smoke that emanates as the result of fields being set on hearth poses a health hazard for the folk as it causes respiratory problems. Many trees near the fields are also demise of this smoke. The leaves of the remaining have grew to become black with soot,” Amarabara Biswal, an environmentalist of Kendrapada. He added that native atmosphere activists had time and again asked the Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) and the district administration to forestall the farmers from polluting the air and to do so against them. “But they are reluctant to act against the offenders,” he complained.
Gayadhar Dhal a farmers’ chief and secretary of the district unit of Krusaka Sabha, defined that the burning of paddy stubble was once an age-old follow and it helped make the field ready for any other crop on the end of the paddy harvesting season. “The government have no right to forestall farmers from burning stubble,” he stated.
Dhal additionally stated farmers must now not be victimized as different financial sectors had been similarly accountable for causing pollution. “Last 12 months, the Central Pollution Control Board had recognized Paradip port as some of the polluted areas of the state. Villagers near Paradip and its atmosphere are facing critical air and water pollution from round 15 polluting industries there. Why doesn’t the the officials take motion against them?” he questioned.
When contacted, Mukesh Mahalingam, the regional officer of the OSPCB in Paradip, stated, “The govt has strictly prohibited the burning of paddy stubble in Delhi, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. The Odisha govt is but to do any such thing; hence, we can’t take motion against the farmers who burn stubble.”
Burning of paddy stubble in coastal districts worries green activists
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