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LAHORE, Pakistan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Air pollution is a long-standing problem in Pakistan, but every October and November contaminates in the air in Punjab province shoot up as farmers burn ...

A new economic study in the journal Science shows that thousands of farmers in northern India could increase their profits if they stop burning their rice straw and adopt no-till practices to grow ...

ROME, Aug 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Every year, a choking smog descends on northwest India as the region's farmers burn their fields following the rice harvest - a phenomenon that has helped ...

In Punjab, despite strict fines, close monitoring, and even Supreme Court directives, stubble burning remains the farmers' preferred method of disposing of crop residue. A key government ...

Burning agricultural fields to dispose of crop residue after harvesting – a practice widespread in north-west India – has been blamed for negatively affecting the region’s air quality and the health ...