Prevent the burning of the future of the fields

Burning and burning, the burning has been going on for many years, from one crop to the next. At the present time, farmers do not know what to do other than burning these by-products to free up land for the new crop. The fires from straw and food crop roots in the fields may only burn for a few minutes, a few dozen minutes, but they are accumulating and their danger is to burn the future living environment of the fields, and more broadly, of the countryside.

Somewhere in the newspapers and on television reports, we see many farmers complaining about the very poor air quality, the increasing amount of dust and smoke surrounding the fields and villages. Strange diseases suddenly appear, attacking crops, livestock and poultry. There are complaints about such vast fields but even in the flood season, there is no fish or shrimp.

Aquatic environments are also falling victims to uncontrolled, wild fires on shore.

Please look at this situation through the statistics announced by the Director of the Department of Crop Production and Plant Protection, Ministry of Agriculture and Environment Huynh Tan Dat: Currently, the total amount of agricultural by-products is about 150 million tons per year, of which the crop production sector alone is about 94 million tons. By-products mainly come from the main food crop groups, industrial crops and vegetables. Of this, straw accounts for 47%, however, up to 70% is burned in the fields or released into the environment, seriously affecting air quality.

In addition, the agricultural sector annually generates about 944 tons of used pesticide packaging, but the collection rate is only about 62.3%. The rest is burned or discharged directly into the environment.

That is not wrong. We can easily see in many fields that there are pits and storage cells built by the government or cooperatives to collect pesticide packaging for safe and organized disposal. But we can also easily see the disease of formality, people only bring pesticide packaging to the centralized collection point in the early days or when there is a request and supervision. The rest, they easily throw it away right on the edge of their fields or burn it on the spot, not caring about the impact it will have.

When crop by-products are used as fuel for domestic use, straw is collected and considered a commodity. Until fuel is replaced by new products, crop by-products have not completely lost their usefulness. We see that straw still has value as an auxiliary for other production industries such as making straw mushrooms, making environmentally friendly materials... Recently, scientists in the agricultural and environmental sectors have proposed utilizing agricultural by-products for value-added purposes such as producing construction materials, renewable energy, biofertilizers... At the same time, the application of advanced technologies such as on-site bioprocessing and enzyme production is encouraged to accelerate the decomposition of by-products.

Good solutions, but what is needed is how to organize implementation. If the management agency does not advise on financial mechanisms for collection and recycling of crop residues, and if businesses do not access them for useful purposes, farmers will continue to burn and burn. They cannot do anything else to release these residues to prepare for the new crop.

Wisdom

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