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New tech may help curb crop burning, cut smog
Air pollution is a long-standing problem in Pakistan, but every October and November contaminates in the air in Punjab province shoot up as farmers burn rice stalks left behind after harvesting to clear their fields to plant wheat. During these cooler months, the provincial capital Lahore, which is surrounded by rice-growing districts, is covered with thick smog. “It is a health emergency — the air quality monitors in Lahore routinely show hazardous levels in November,” said Farah Rashid, a climate and energy programme co-ordinator for green group WWF-Pakistan. Now the Punjab government hopes to tackle the problem by providing 500 rice farmers around Lahore with a set of machines that toget

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