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SUBMITTER: Jethva H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6851147 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jethva Hiren H Torres Omar O Field Robert D RD Lyapustin Alexei A Gautam Ritesh R Kayetha Vinay V
Scientific reports 20191112 1
Northwestern India is known as the "breadbasket" of the country producing two-thirds of food grains, with wheat and rice as the principal crops grown under the crop rotation system. Agricultural data from India indicates a 25% increase in the post-monsoon rice crop production in Punjab during 2002-2016. NASA's A-train satellite sensors detect a consistent increase in the vegetation index (net 21%) and post-harvest agricultural fire activity (net ~60%) leading to nearly 43% increase in aerosol lo ...[more]