Bathinda: with rice harvest taking steps, the incidence of burning residues has also begun to take in Punjab.
On Thursday, 229 cases of burning stumps, the maximum so far in the ongoing season, recorded by the Punjab remote sensing center.
Previously, 150 cases were recorded on October 10 with 229 cases, the count had increased to 1,286 years.
So far, 57% of the incidents were recorded in the Majha’s border district, Amritsar and Tarn Taran – 737 of the total cases of combustion of residue.
Amritsar has recorded a maximum of 423, followed by neighboring districts Tarn Taran in 314 cases of combustion.
With almost a month into the burning of plant residues, he had surpassed the Casing of the Burning of the 2019 Tunggul, which was established at 1.077 on October 14, but was still far behind the burning case in the previous year which was established on 3,527 on October 14.
The first stump bird case was recorded on September 16.
Stubble lights up usually starting from mid-October and lasts a month until mid-November, saying an agricultural officer who doesn’t want to be named.
Overall, 76,590 cases of burning residue plants were recorded in 2020, the second only for 81,042 cases of burning plant residues were recorded in 2016.