1. – Department Of Geography, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
2. – Department Of Geography, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
| Received
16-Sep-2023 |
Accepted
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Published
16-Sep-2023 |
The Agricultural state of Punjab is dominated by paddy and wheat cropping patterns because of extensive agricultural land and fertile plains of rivers - Ravi, Sutlej and Beas. During the kharif season, paddy is the most sown crop by farmers of Punjab, which leads to stubble burning after crop harvesting. Existing literature shows that there has been a dearth of studies on patterns of stubble burning in Punjab during the kharif season. Therefore, the major objective of the present study is to analyse the pattern of stubble burning in Punjab during the kharif season and to highlight the factors responsible for stubble burning. The present investigation is mainly based on secondary data taken from the website of the Punjab Remote Sensing Center, Ludhiana, for the years 2016-2022, and the district has been taken as a unit of the study. Data has been analysed using an Excel sheet. The findings of the study show that, overall, there has been a declining trend in the patterns of stubble burning in the state of Punjab.