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Monitoring air quality on crop residue burning in fields [1]

Crop residue burning results in the emission of many a toxic pollutants. These emissions can travel long distances affecting thereby the entire region. Due to these emissions the air quality of the region worsens, which results in nose and throat itching and burning, and irritation of the airway tract.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2008
Rajendra Prasad [2]
Indian Journal of Air Pollution Control [3]
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Tags:
Air Pollution [4], Crop Residues [5], RSPM (PM 10) [6], PM 2.5 [7], Oxides Of Nitrogen (NOx) [8], Air Quality Monitoring [9], Green House Gases [10], India [11], Statistics [12]
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