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@article{185145,
        author = {Rekha Rani},
        title = {Agricultural Waste and Residue Burning: Issues and Challenges from the Ratia Region, Haryana},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {5},
        pages = {700-708},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=185145},
        abstract = {Ratia is primarily an agricultural region. About 70% of residents in Ratia region are engaged in agriculture. Major crops of Ratia region are rice, wheat, cotton, jowar, bajra, maize, mustard, vegetable and pulses. Ratia is self-sufficient with increase in food production and significant amount of agro-waste, also known as agricultural residues also increasing. In the Ratia region, stubble burning is a serious issue. Ratia is an agricultural region dominated crop is rice and wheat are prone to crop residue burning. To clear the land in a rice-wheat cropping system for the timely seeding of the following crop, the majority of Indian farmers use residue burning techniques. Open field burning not only results in the destruction of numerous farms at the conclusion of the harvest season, but it also adversely affects soil health and contributes to air pollution. They affect human health due to general degradation in air quality resulting in aggravation of eye and skin diseases In the Ratia region policies on agricultural waste management are either weak or not well-enforced. This results in the lack of better alternative methods leads to the open-field burning of crop waste by farmers. 
In this review paper, we examined the economic potential of agricultural waste management options available to Ratia region by reviewing the literature for crop establishment practices in which planting crops in standing stubble, implementing in-situ approaches along with composting methods, biofuel generation and use of waste as feedstock for value added products. This is done by taking the case study of Ratia region, which is an important agricultural region in the state of Haryana, India.},
        keywords = {Agricultural Waste, Agricultural Residues, Stubble Burning, Residue Burning, Open-Field Burning, Composting},
        month = {October},
        }