Every year millions of tonnes of paddy-waste in northern India is burnt by farmers in order to clear the fields rapidly for planting subsequent crop. The farmers do not have the necessary means to deploy advanced machinery and equipment to clear the farm waste and nor do they get any/adequate compensation to be able to afford the clearing of the farmlands.
Solution
Bharatia is developing a strategic systemic solution to address this problem. The solution has 3 main parts:
Part A: Distributed Warehousing
The warehousing is distributed across the affected region with each warehouse optimised to store bulk agri-waste.
Part B: Commodity Fund and collection
Working directly with farmers, farmer producer organisation (FPO) and aggregators, the commodity fund shall be responsible for collection and procurement of the farm-waste. The famers will be provided spot/direct payments for the waste collected from their farms.
Part C: Downstream bio-energy production
A bio-energy (biogas or biofuel) production unit shall be attached to each warehouse, or centrally located so that it is within an economically viable distance.
Impact
Eliminate crop burning
Reduce air pollution
Increase farmer income
Increase energy security
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