Key Features:
A comprehensive guide to sustainable paddy straw (parali) management in India.
Offers 35 chapters with practical technologies to convert parali into value-added products.
Focus on increasing soil fertility, rural employment, and
ducing air pollution.
Covers biochar, biogas, bio-CNG, compost, mushroom farming, and biodegradable materials.
Written by Prof. K.R. Aneja, an eminent microbiologist with national and international accolades. This book contains 35 chapters discussed under four categories:
1st Chapter concerns with introduction to the subject.
Chapters 2nd to 7th deal with the harmful effects of paddy straw burning.
Chapters 8th to 34th deal with the methods to reduce farm fires, increase soil fertility, create employment for rural youth, putting paddy straw to use at largeand small-scale for boosting farmers income, and financial gain to industries and governments.
Chapter 35th deals with the subsidies/incentives offered to promote paddy straw residue management, rules and regulations imposed by the governments (Union & States) and suggestions to curb stubble
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