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With 5 pm trick, farmers dodging satellites; 2025 among worst farm-fire years?

With 5 pm trick, farmers dodging satellites; 2025 among worst farm-fire years? Why is it that the government says farm fires in Punjab and Haryana have gone down but the smog in Delhi-NCR remains the same? A study by Isro researchers shows how farmers have learnt the time when satellites scan the region and delayed the time of peak fire activity.

A farmer burns stubble after a harvest at a paddy field, on the outskirts of Amritsar, in the last week of October 2024. (PTI Image)

A farmer burns stubble after a harvest at a paddy field, on the outskirts of Amritsar, in the last week of October 2024. (PTI Image)

Credit: Indiatoday

Key Highlights

  • A Nasa researcher says an aerosol study indicates 2025 to be the third-worst in the last 15 years.
  • There's a gap in India's tracking system and farmers are exploiting it.
  • AdvertisementA farmer burns stubble after a harvest at a paddy field, on the outskirts of Amritsar, in the last week of October 2024.
  • (PTI Image)India Today News DeskNew Delhi,UPDATED: Dec 8, 2025 08:29 ISTWritten By: Yudhajit Shankar DasGoing against the common perception that incidents of stubble-burning have dipped, experts at Isro, India's premier space agency, suggest that farmers have changed the timing of starting farm fires to dodge monitoring satellites.
  • Not just that.
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