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Air emergency looms as farm fires rage with rains receding
Hindustan Times|October 17, 2022
At 205, the breadbasket states of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh recorded the season's highest single-day count of farm fires over the weekend, pushing the Capital's air quality into the poor category after 11 days. Before this, the highest number of fires in the three states was 135 on October 13.
- Jasjeev Gandhiok
Air emergency looms as farm fires rage with rains receding

Satellite data from Nasa, collated by the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, showed Punjab recorded 169 fires on Saturday, while Haryana recorded 36 fires. There were no fires recorded in UP.

With the harvest season progressing, experts say this number is likely to go up over the next two weeks. "We saw Punjab and Haryana's highest count so far this season on Saturday and this number is expected to increase further over the next two weeks. The peak stubble season normally starts around October 26-27 and continues till November 10," VK Sehgal, professor and principal scientist at IARI and part of CREAMS, said, adding that with the new measures being employed by state governments the figures might remain low.

The Consortium for Research on Agroecosystem Monitoring and Modelling from Space (CREAMS), under IARI, began analysing satellite data from Nasa on September 15 this year.

The data in the one month since, shows Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh are all faring better than the last two years.

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