Earth is Burning

We are misinformed that one of the major source of air pollution in Tarai Region is agricultural burns in India, but that's not the complete truth.

Let me correct it for you, The agricultural burns in Nepal is more prominent source of air pollution in Tarai Region.

As clearly seen in this video, Nepali fields are also burned causing smoke clouds all over.

This is the scene of Sainamaina Municipality, Rupandehi from past November.

When the wheat was harvested, the field was burned for clearance.

The remaining grass/trees of the crops were burned intending to clean the field for further framing.

The smoke in the videos might seem like produced from burning acres of land, but this is only 3 Kattha land which was burned.

And the most disgusting part is, this land is not isolated or away from livelihoods.

This is covered by houses as seen in the video.

Thus the smoke produced from burn affected hundreds of people living around this field directly, alongside the contribution of PM2.5 into the air. As per an article published in IMICOD blog, Agricultural burning, including the open burning of crop residues, contributes roughly 10-17% of direct PM2.5 emissions in Nepal, with spikes reaching up to 30% during specific seasonal haze and open-fire events.

The smoky clouds may disappear after few minutes or hours of burn, but impact remains for longer time.

PM2.5 in air, thik layer of haze and rising number of AQI is the long term impact of these burning.

A shortcut to clean the field after harvesting, is shortening our life spam and we are unaware of it.

There may be alternative ways to clean the field, but there is no alternative for human life.

Every burn is melting us.

By now, it's hard to recover.