Blazing flames light the sky as Indian farmer Ali Sher burns his fields to clear them for new crops, a common but illegal practice that is fuelling deadly pollution killing millions.
Burning strips the fertility of fields, has a ruinous impact on India's economy and sends plumes of acrid smoke packed with dangerous cancer-causing particles drifting over a densely-populated belt of northern India, including capital New Delhi's 30 million people. But it is cheap -- for farmers at least -- to carry out.
Burning strips the fertility of fields, has a ruinous impact on India's economy and sends plumes of acrid smoke packed with dangerous cancer-causing particles drifting over a densely-populated belt of northern India, including capital New Delhi's 30 million people. But it is cheap -- for farmers at least -- to carry out.
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00:30Wow
01:00It's a helpless situation. Why did the landlord put us on the side?
01:04There is no way to move this machine.
01:06There is no other solution.
01:13After a light smoke,
01:17there is a little smoke left.
01:19Then we have to burn it.