LEWA appeals farmers not to burn haystack
Source: The Sangai Express
Thoubal, November 18 2018:
Lamding Educated Welfare Association (LEWA), Lamding Khumanthem Leikai, Thoubal district appeal the farmers, who have already finished cultivation, not to burn their leftover straw on the paddy field as the fire might spread to nearby standing paddy crops or other uncultivated paddy straw, said a statement issued by LEWA.
Reminding that there were so many instances of lost and destruction of paddy crop reported last year caused by stray fire, the association appealed the concerned farmers to refrain from burning the straw and added that the smoke emanating from burning the straw will also pollute the environment which is harmful for the human.