Air pollution due to burning of agriculture residue

Residue burning practice is followed in major Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. Agricultural residue burning in the fields and used otherwise for rural domestic needs is responsible for a large number of toxic emissions, which are a health hazard. The main pollutants contributed from biomass burning are aerosols and gases like carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide, oxides of nitrogen, methane, non-methane volatile organic carbon and ammonia.