Transitions to crop residue burning have multiple antecedents in Eastern India.

ABSTRACT: Far removed from the agricultural fire "hotspots" of Northwestern India, rice residue burning is on the rise in Eastern India with implications for regional air quality and agricultural sustainability. The underlying drivers contributing to the increase in burning have been linked to the adoption of mechanized (combine) harvesting but, in general, are inadequately understood. We hypothesize that the adoption of burning as a management practice results from a set of socio-technical interactions rather than emerging from a single factor. Using a mixed methods approach, a household survey (n = 475) provided quantitative insights into landscape and farm-scale drivers of burning and was complemented by an in-depth qualitative survey (n = 36) to characterize decision processes and

SUBMITTER: Urban Cordeiro E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11543722 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature