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Environmental and Health Impacts of Crop Residue Burning: Scope of Sustainable Crop Residue Management Practices
The burning of crop residue in the open field has become a significant concern for climate change mitigation efforts worldwide. This practice has led to air quality impairment, smog, haze, heat waves, and different health problems. These could be avoided by adopting sustainable crop residue manageme...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9032433/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35457622 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084753 |
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author | Raza, Muhammad Haseeb Abid, Muhammad Faisal, Muhammad Yan, Tingwu Akhtar, Shoaib Adnan, K. M. Mehedi |
author_facet | Raza, Muhammad Haseeb Abid, Muhammad Faisal, Muhammad Yan, Tingwu Akhtar, Shoaib Adnan, K. M. Mehedi |
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description | The burning of crop residue in the open field has become a significant concern for climate change mitigation efforts worldwide. This practice has led to air quality impairment, smog, haze, heat waves, and different health problems. These could be avoided by adopting sustainable crop residue management practices (SCRMPs) and enabling farmers to engage in SCRMPs. Assessing the health effects at the household level is critical for understanding this problem and finding a solution. Using the primary dataset of 420 farmers from Punjab, Pakistan, we estimated the incurred impacts and costs of crop residue burning. We calculated the health and environmental benefits associated with adopting SCRMPs by comparing the two groups of farmers (adopters and non-adopters). Furthermore, we used a propensity score matching technique to measure the causal impact of SCRMPs adoption on health costs. The findings showed that a surprisingly large number of farmers are all aware of the adverse effects of residue burning, and many do not burn crop residues and instead use SCRMPs. This study found that households with chronic and non-chronic diseases become acute, and the severity increases during the burning period. They spend USD 13.37 to USD 8.79 on chronic and non-chronic diseases during the burning season, respectively. Consequently, the use of SCRMPs has a positive effect on healthcare costs. Our study findings highlight the meaningful implications for developing a new policy to promote the sustainable utilization of crop residues and enhance their adoption in Pakistan. |
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spelling | pubmed-90324332022-04-23 Environmental and Health Impacts of Crop Residue Burning: Scope of Sustainable Crop Residue Management Practices Raza, Muhammad Haseeb Abid, Muhammad Faisal, Muhammad Yan, Tingwu Akhtar, Shoaib Adnan, K. M. Mehedi Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The burning of crop residue in the open field has become a significant concern for climate change mitigation efforts worldwide. This practice has led to air quality impairment, smog, haze, heat waves, and different health problems. These could be avoided by adopting sustainable crop residue management practices (SCRMPs) and enabling farmers to engage in SCRMPs. Assessing the health effects at the household level is critical for understanding this problem and finding a solution. Using the primary dataset of 420 farmers from Punjab, Pakistan, we estimated the incurred impacts and costs of crop residue burning. We calculated the health and environmental benefits associated with adopting SCRMPs by comparing the two groups of farmers (adopters and non-adopters). Furthermore, we used a propensity score matching technique to measure the causal impact of SCRMPs adoption on health costs. The findings showed that a surprisingly large number of farmers are all aware of the adverse effects of residue burning, and many do not burn crop residues and instead use SCRMPs. This study found that households with chronic and non-chronic diseases become acute, and the severity increases during the burning period. They spend USD 13.37 to USD 8.79 on chronic and non-chronic diseases during the burning season, respectively. Consequently, the use of SCRMPs has a positive effect on healthcare costs. Our study findings highlight the meaningful implications for developing a new policy to promote the sustainable utilization of crop residues and enhance their adoption in Pakistan. MDPI 2022-04-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9032433/ /pubmed/35457622 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084753 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Raza, Muhammad Haseeb Abid, Muhammad Faisal, Muhammad Yan, Tingwu Akhtar, Shoaib Adnan, K. M. Mehedi Environmental and Health Impacts of Crop Residue Burning: Scope of Sustainable Crop Residue Management Practices |
title | Environmental and Health Impacts of Crop Residue Burning: Scope of Sustainable Crop Residue Management Practices |
title_full | Environmental and Health Impacts of Crop Residue Burning: Scope of Sustainable Crop Residue Management Practices |
title_fullStr | Environmental and Health Impacts of Crop Residue Burning: Scope of Sustainable Crop Residue Management Practices |
title_full_unstemmed | Environmental and Health Impacts of Crop Residue Burning: Scope of Sustainable Crop Residue Management Practices |
title_short | Environmental and Health Impacts of Crop Residue Burning: Scope of Sustainable Crop Residue Management Practices |
title_sort | environmental and health impacts of crop residue burning: scope of sustainable crop residue management practices |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9032433/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35457622 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084753 |
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