Studies found Egypt’s farmers were releasing the equivalent of 11 tonnes of carbon dioxide per hectare of rice straw burning. Delta residents all agreed that the skies after last autumn’s rice harvest were clearer than usual. But they also said that rice straw burning is still regularly visible. “I planted two acres of rice, so of course I had a lot of rice straw. India developed a system to spray enzymes into the soil after the rice harvest, turning the rice husks into useful fertiliser.

Source: Ethiopian News July 18, 2023 03:59 UTC