With crop residue burning in northwest India contributing to a quarter of Delhi's air pollution during winter, a professor from Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University has claimed to have developed a solution to the problem.


According to Professor Dinesh Mohan, the biomass or stubble can be converted into Biochar using a reactor.Professor Mohan says the conversion of biomass into Biochar would reduce the issue caused due to stubble burning.


Biochar is a manmade charcoal material composed of agricultural wastes including manure, crop residues, and forage grasses. -- ANI