"Crop-burning is a seasonal contributor to local air pollution in [[India]]. October and November are the changeover months for farmers, when they harvest their rice and get ready to plant wheat. **The planting window is short – the first two weeks of November – which means they need to quickly get rid of the straw from the rice crop that has been left behind in the field. The easy thing to do is burn it**. Easy for the farmer, but costly for the country. All the farmers do this at the same time, and the surrounding cities are filled with pollution. ([Location 1080](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0C3X6X695&location=1080))" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[agrarian-economies]], [[technology]], [[pollution]], [[climate-change]], [[emissions]], [[farming]], [[food-security]] **Source** -- [[260103133118 - B - Not the End of the World]]