Season Long Training Programme to the Farmers on Crop Residues Availability and their Management in Different Crops RARS, Warangal on 12-7-2024

India is an annual gross crop residue producer of 371 million tons (mt), of which paddy and wheat residues constitutes 51– 57% and 27–36% respectively. Crop Residue Burning (CRB) or Burning of agricultural biomass residue has been identified as a major health hazard. Burning crop residue causes remarkable pollution problems in the atmosphere and huge nutritional loss and physical health deterioration to the soil. The burning of one tonne of paddy straw releases 3 kg particulate matter 60 kg CO, 2 kg SO2 and 199 kg ash. These gases affect human health due to general degradation in air quality resulting in aggravation of eye and skin diseases, and very fine particles can also cause chronic heart and lung diseases. The composition of nutrients in crop residue is highly rich, like one ton of paddy straw contains approximately 2.3 kg P2O5, 5.5 kg N, 25 kg K2O, 1.2 kg S, 50-70% of micro-nutrients absorbed by rice and 400 kg of carbon, which are lost due to burning of paddy straw only. To imbibe knowledge to the farmers on pollution of soil, water and environment and reduction strategies the training programme on crop residues availability and their management in different crops was proposed to be conducted in the month of July-2023 with following schedule. In this programme ADR, RARS, Warangal participated and AGM, NABARD, as chief guest and farmers participated