Delhi and its surrounding areas get covered in a toxic grey blanket as farmers in India's Punjab set several thousand acres of crop waste on fire to clear their fields
Farmers are “not lighting it up out of choice", says Paramjit Singh, general secretary of a prominent farmers' union in Punjab, where over 33,000 stubble fires have been reported since September 15th.
"If, instead of burning, the stubble has to be disposed off in any other manner, then that involves a lot of expenditure," Paramjit Singh, general secretary of a prominent farmers' union in Punjab, told Reuters news agency. The season’s total for the following five states, respectively, is reported as 2624, 1007, 9, 3804, and 699.
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