[Assam] [WaterWatch] Blazing Punjab: Flaming Fields

[Manoj Das]

May be space sperm/ovary will produce giant Hans..:)

BTW.. the green house potency of CO2 released by burning rice/wheat straws
is much less than that of the methane that would be released due to
decomposition. Methane is about 41 times more potent than CO2..

I am sorry, gave the wrong web address for CDM in my last mail..its
actually.http://cdm.unfccc.int/Projects/MapApp/index.html

mkd.

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 9:39 AM, mc mahant <mikemahant at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> <Chinese growing giant sized vegetables> from space seeds. 2000 kgs of
> seeds were shot up to space by the Chinese> over last 25 years. These were
> brought back and planted in experimental> fields. The results are reported
> to be extra ordinary. Pumpkins as large as> 40 kgs and tomatoes upto 5 kgs
> weight are produced in these farms. This> could be one way of feeding their
> teeming 1.2 billion people>
>
> 2 weeks back I was passing thro' Kunming.
> Airport Departure hall had a  fruit/flower shop.
> Saw a Poka Kothal about 20Kg.-- Also the people were eating plates of its
> PHUTAAS
> And Kosu(Taro) each 4>5 Kilo-- by the Kilo.
> Mangoes 10+varieties  all from our TILIKIAAM   to Greenskin   MaldOH types.
> Apricots(Noraa Bogori)  generally  each 1Kg
> NogaTenga, Therezu,--we almost forgot--they have these  loud and clear
>
>
> What are the Genetic Mutation Possibilities of an average height Han(<1.2
> billion people>-or is it 1.5 already?) eating Giant Space-seeded Pumpkins
> and Suddenly growing to 8'?
>
> Happy weekend to you too.
>
> M'da
> > Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 09:20:33 +0530> From: dasmk2k at gmail.com> To:
> assam at assamnet.org> Subject: Re: [Assam] [WaterWatch] Blazing Punjab:
> Flaming Fields> > Someone can bundle the project and replace the burning
> with some other eco> friendly practice and get *CDM* (Carbon credit...
> www.unfcc.int/cdm...)> benefits. In any case the carbon emitted by the
> burning will be sequested by> the next crop, so net emission will be nil.
> But, if we stop burning> definitely there will be carbon credits to be
> earned. that's my logic..> > Recently a team of Japanese/Thai organic
> farmers visited NER on NEDFi's> invite and introduced something called EM
> (Effective Micro-organism), the> heart of organic cultivation. EM is a
> mixture of 80+ friendly bacterias used> on the soil to break up inorganic
> matter, bio-mass and enhance productivity> and disease fighting abilities.>
> > Yesterday I read somewhere about the Chinese growing giant sized
> vegetables> from space seeds. 2000 kgs of seeds were shot up to space by the
> Chinese> over last 25 years. These were brought back and planted in
> experimental> fields. The results are reported to be extra ordinary.
> Pumpkins as large as> 40 kgs and tomatoes upto 5 kgs weight are produced in
> these farms. This> could be one way of feeding their teeming 1.2 billion
> people. I don't know> if my Bharat Varsh is trying something similar.> >
> Burning the straw after harvesting season is also the practice in Assam. I>
> used to love the smell of burning 'nora'- local name for the stalk/straw.>
> Brings kind of nostalgia, when I think about it. There must be some>
> reason/logic for this age-old practice. Could be that the eggs of pests are>
> killed that way. We need not condemn it out right. Why not some scientific>
> study carried out by scientists.> > Happy weekend!> > Cheers!!> > On Sun,
> May 18, 2008 at 4:37 AM, mc mahant <mikemahant at hotmail.com> wrote:> > >> >
> Answer is: EDUCATE >>> >> > Biochemitization of Agwastes through
> Humification-- for synergic> > growth.Soil Bacteria is waiting to do that
> for you.> > Burning is not Science.It is Suicide.> > Punjab is known to us
> from a distance for its "Advanced Agriculture/Agro> > Management"> > MM> >>
> >> > To: waterwatch at yahoogroups.comFrom: umendradutt at gmail.comDate: Sat,
> 17 May> > 2008 06:21:34 +0530Subject: [WaterWatch] Blazing Punjab: Flaming
> Fields> >> >> >> >> >> > Blazing Punjab: Flaming Fields> > Burning of Crop
> residue – Need of Civilizational Intervention> >> > By Umendra Dutt> >> >
> Every day I pass through villages and see fires in the just harvested> >
> fields. An absolutely avoidable ecological destruction and environmental> >
> violence is going on at the hands of brainwashed farmers. The trees, the> >
> earth friendly creatures, the micro organisms are getting destroyed for no>
> > rhyme or reason. Farmers are burning the wheat stalks just in order to
> save> > a few hundred rupees, time .This dangerous practice is bound to play
> havoc> > in a few years and these shortsighted misadventures are going to
> extract a> > huge price in terms of money, time, environmental health,
> ecosystem and> > natural resources.Countless innocent, man and crop friendly
> living forms are> > being criminalised. These living forms actually
> rejuvenate and energise our> > soil, our mother earth.> >> > Punjab is
> burning, really. A very painful scene we are witnessing every day> > around
> us. Madness, a mass psychosis of people unconcerned with the results> > of
> their own misdeed is happening around us, which is terribly upsetting. It> >
> is reminiscent of 'thousand fires in Rome', but at the end of those, Nero> >
> added another page in human history. But what are we achieving here with> >
> these unnecessary fires in our fields? We are burning Wheat crop residue in>
> > more then 5500 Sq KMs and 12685 Sq KMs in Rice crop residues and
> according> > to a study based on satellite data, the Emission Factors (EFs)
> for wheat> > residue burning as estimated CO- 34.66g/Kg , NOx – 2.63g/Kg,
> CH4 – 0.41g/Km> > , PM10 – 3.99g/Kg, PM2.5 – 3.76g/Kg .> >> > These
> large-scale burning, releases trace gases, along with sub> > micron-sized
> aerosols, which are known to aggravate lung and respiratory> > diseases. And
> we address earth as Dharti Ma.> >> > Burning of the crop residue not only
> adds to atmospheric pollution and> > emission of green house gases but also
> leads to loss of rich renewable soil> > rejuvenating organic resources. It
> gives me an uneasy feeling about our> > society, its contemporary character
> and it also indicates a kind of> > shallowness of my society. It is so
> disturbing that I questions my own self.> > We have to pose this question to
> ourselves and to the so called experts as> > to why this seasonal burning at
> all?> >> > Who is to blame? Are our farmers responsible? What is the reason
> for this?> > Why our society is behaving like this? Are the changing life
> styles also> > contributing in this indifferent attitude of our society? Why
> our social> > scientists are indifferently quiet on this burning issue?> >>
> > Is it simple that farmers are burning up crop straw to save few hundred> >
> rupees only? Despite knowing the adverse effects of this devastating> >
> practice? Why the farmers are intent to burn stubble?> > Then some more
> questions also need to have answers. Where is the solution?> > Can
> technology provide solution? Is it due to lack of technology and its> >
> application or adoption only? I think it is the unmindfull application of> >
> technology that is responsible for this crisis. Because technology doesn't>
> > come in isolation, it carries a cultural imprint with itself along with a>
> > carbon footprint. Then, there is physiological baggage also. Any new> >
> technology we adopt, it impacts our way of thinking, our analysis, our> >
> perceptions and our relations with surroundings – the nature and the> >
> mankind.> > We had propagated various new technologies in course of modern
> development> > and Green revolution. Our experts are proud of these new
> technologies; they> > are very fond of talking about its adoption rate,
> success rate and other> > benefits. We had started evaluating every thing
> mechanically in narrow terms> > of profitability. The green revolution
> agricultural paradigm has also> > displaced our value systems from
> agriculture; it has destroyed the very> > basic civilizational element in
> our convoluted agriculture vision.> > When there is no moral code, no
> values, no beliefs, no ethics then> > certainly there will be no compassion
> at all, no feeling on oneness with our> > surroundings. Then the whole earth
> is supposed to be for our self-indulgence> > only, and the farm is only a
> piece of land, a mere area, which is owned by> > me, I am the owner of that
> , so it depends on me only - What I do to that> > land. I want maximum
> profits out of it, because I have to address my lust of> > money.> > I was
> told by the experts to put poisons in my land to kill pests, they> > told me
> it is the development. I was taught by the experts and highly> > civilized
> persons that I should use machines – Harvester Combine to minimize> > my
> expenditure on human labour, as labour is a problem. Then one agriculture> >
> economist teaches me lessons of profitability – economic viability – and I>
> > was told that now I am a progressive farmer. When I was made totally> >
> self-centered unconcerned of my surroundings, my ecology, sustainability of>
> > life. Then this agriculture establishment celebrated my progress. They
> told> > me it is the way of life now; this is the new path of development.
> There is> > euphoria all around and no body has time to talk about my
> interdependence on> > Nature. New machines, technologies and new definitions
> have taken place of> > the wisdom I got from my ancestors.> >> >> > The
> burning of crop residue should not be seen in isolation, we have to> > take
> a holistic picture. It is not a problem in itself… it a symptom of> >
> deep-rooted civilizational crisis of our society and our age. We have to> >
> address the crisis on much wider canvass.> > Mankind is behaving like this
> towards every natural thing – wether it is> > water, air, trees, forests,
> animals, the mechanized mind and self-seeking> > way of life has made our
> whole society insensitive to nature. The crisis> > mitigation does not lie
> in technological interventions only. The agriculture> > expert mind- set and
> solutions suggested by it has already ruined our> > ecology and our
> agricultural heritage. Now we cannot ask them to suggest> > solutions. Those
> who were worshiped for more then four decades for their> > expertise now
> should not be asked for solutions, because they can provide> > another
> technological answer and mere technology is not a complete solution> > at
> all.> >> > There are still thousands of farmers who have no rotavator or
> Happy-seeder> > but they are not burning the stubble. Agriculture implements
> are only tools> > to be used; the real answer is in our mindset, the vision
> and feeling of a> > relationship with Earth, other forms of life and whole
> ecology.> > While NFL at Bathinda produces 5 lakh tons of urea which gives
> near about> > 2.5 lakh tons of nitrogen with lots of energy consumption,
> water consumption> > and environmental pollution, so one fifth of the total
> production of> > nitrogen is burned due to inefficient management systems
> put forth by the> > government.> > Farmers burn 196 lakh MTs of straw every
> year, worth crores of rupees,> > besides losing 38.5 lakh MTs of organic
> carbon, 59,000 MTs of nitrogen,> > 2,000 MTs of phosphorous and 34,000 MTs
> of potassium every year. If> > government feels that this should be saved,
> it should take up a large> > campaign, asking farmers to use the straw as
> mulch, spread with Jeevaamrita> > kind of solutions. If it involves
> additional costs for the farmers,> > government should pay for it.> >> >
> Several farmers associated with Kheti Virasat Mission who are practicing> >
> natural farming, have already adopted Jeevaamrita to mulch stubble in their>
> > farms. They are not into burning madness, not because of technology but
> due> > to their conviction. Off course farmer needs some methods to mulch
> all crop> > straw. Jeevaamrita provides appropriate solution.> >> > We
> should develop a strong campaign asking Govt to initiate a process of> >
> asking people to adopt straw mulching; this would automatically lead to> >
> promotion of natural farming once we get space in the campaign. The> >
> prerequisite of the solution is a civilizational intervention to> >
> re-establish mother–son relation of farmer with Earth. We have to redefine>
> > the meaning of development, progressive farmer, profitability and> >
> sustainability. We have to evolve a new idiom to evaluate our contemporary>
> > ecological crisis.> >> > The whole society and particularly the elite and
> experts must take the> > responsibility of their transgression; farmers are
> expressing the same what> > the society has taught them. This burning of
> stubble is the natural outcome> > of the economic and agriculture model we
> are pursuing from last fifty years.> > It is the result of a paradigm we had
> chosen, propagated by the experts of> > those times.> >> > Let whole Punjabi
> society accept its role in this misadventure. This is the> > only one
> dimension of whole ecological-civilizational crisis that our> > society is
> facing and which will certainly affect lives of our future> > generations.
> We have to change Collective Mindset of our society and this> > can be only
> being done through a process for new model of development.> > Let us start
> this voyage to build our own developmental paradigm to come> > out this self
> inflicting devastation.> >> >> > -- Umendra DuttExecutive DirectorKHETI
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