BANGKOK—Thailand must ban stubble burning by farmers to improve air quality, the head of a leading agricultural body said Monday,
The kingdom suffered dire air quality earlier in the year, with Bangkok and the northern city of Chiang Mai ranked among the most polluted cities in the world on some days in April.
One of the leading sources of the particles is farmers torching stubble to prepare land for the next crop, with “burning season” peaking between December and April.“The government should ban crop-burning—the method widely used among farmers in Thailand,” said Pornsil Patcharintanakul, president of Thai Feed Mill Association , which operates under the commerce ministry.
More than two million people sought medical treatment in Thailand this year because of problems linked to air pollution.
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