Stubble Burning Menace starts in West Bengal

 Stubble Burning Menace starts in West Bengal 

Forget the catchphrase "What Bengal does today, India will do tomorrow", right now "No North Indian evil shall be left uncopied" is more Apt for West Bengal. Limping with a braindead Intelligentsia,  Clueless copycat media and hopelessly "Nobody told us so" Medical professionals, they don't even notice the amount of ash and dust gets deposited on their roads and their homes. 

Well Today's NASA image and thermal anomalies plot bared it all in the open. Reason for such rice-paddy burning? 

Mechanical (So called Modern) Farming, they bought "Tractors & Harvesters" on mass it seems. Rice paddy was being cultivated in Bengal as early as documented history existed in Ganges Delta . Never in the history did they need burning of paddy stubble. 

Which idiot told them to get Harvester machines? When rural unemployment and specially youth unemployment is rampant in Bengal. 

The land holding of farmers in Bengal are much smaller than UP, Haryana and other parts of India. In Bengal, the farmers will never get the level of "Return on Investment" of harvester machines. When fuels like Kerosene, Diesel and Petrol are at their record high, stubble burning will only increase their input cost , purchasing "Useless Machines like Harvester" will make them crippling in debt.

Yet it seems, all across the Damodar River Valley, stubble Burning is gaining popularity.  As it is smog from North India had already rolled in into Bengal and add to that local stubble Burning and the smoke emanating locally, so Kolkata and Bengal will have as toxic air as Delhi. If Farmers are not rescued early from this Menace. 

Solution and the way out:

1. Avoid mechanical harvesting, create a pool of agricultural labour in the village from local unemployed youth. Let Government's Rural employment guarantee scheme fund part of harvesting labour cost.

Draw lottery to decide whose field gets harvested when.

2. For Stubble clearing, Use the traditional cattle and especially goats in the field. Mutton being a gastronomic delicacy,  nobody will mind Goats getting fatter. And "Goats in Bengal eat absolutely anything" , there is a Bengali proverb that corroborate to that.

3. Put AQI monitors in all small cities and towns and then check the kind of miserable air, your stupid machines and new techniques brought you.

4. Why No Doctor in Bengal talks about this local stubble burning? They are too busy drinking "India Made Local Scotch", they don't know these..