Again, the most interesting part of the news has been left out - http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/03/world/asia/farmers-unchecked-crop-burning-fuels-indias-air

Again, the most interesting part of the news has been left out - http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/03/world/asia/farmers-unchecked-crop-burning-fuels-indias-air-pollution.html http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/03/world/asia/farmers-unch... In fact, thus article could be termed as fairly incorrect. The pollution exists, but the reasoning is wrong. The firecracker usage this year was much less than last year because of a lot of pollution campaigns. The problem is millions of tons of agricultural waste being burned in neighboring states. It's an interesting problem to which there is no ready answer. The govt is trying to introduce "seeders" which can help farmers plant their farms without burning older waste... but it's too expensive for the poor farmers to adopt. Some of us are thinking about how to cobble together seeders using old tractor parts,etc. TLDR - if you know a cheap way to plant in fields, without burning the hay of the last crop, you will solve the North Indian pollution problem to a large degree. Other problems exist - but that is being addressed.