Greed for sugar profits worsens PM2.5A worker holds sugarcane stalks at a burnt field in Suphan Buri. That is because sugarcanes feed the sugar industry, a major export sector. But the sugar industry is more complex and it is hard to blame just one actor. FARMER: "With orders of higher volumes for sugarcanes and the government supporting the sugar industry, sugarcane millers asked me to extend sugarcane plantations. Burning of fields will remain an unavoidable consequence as long as the government keeps sugar production as its top priority.

Source: Bangkok Post January 26, 2020 23:03 UTC