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From bread basket to basket case

by Soumya Sarkar | Nov 10, 2017

Climate-smart reforms are required to change farming practices in Punjab and Haryana, the bread basket of India, to tackle the severe air pollution that afflicts Delhi and north India every autumn

The widespread burning of crop residue in Punjab and Haryana has contributed significantly to the catastrophic levels of air pollution in the national capital and across northern India…Read More

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