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Proceedings of the International Academy of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 2023, 13(1): 1-17
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The legal implementation plan for banning of stalk burning: An empirical study of China's Xiayi County

Md. Ziaul Islam¹, Shuwei Wang², Jie Zhang³, Xinyu Du³, Xing Wang⁴
¹Research Institute of Environmental Law (RIEL), School of Law, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, PR China
²Shangjian Law Office, Songjiang District, Shanghai 201600, PR China
³School of Economic Law, Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai 201701, PR China
⁴Key Laboratory of Modern Educational Technology, Ministry of Education, Shanxi Normal University, Xian 710062, PR China

Received 31 August 2022;Accepted 8 October 2022;Published online 2 December 2022;Published 1 March 2023
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Abstract
The present study finds that nearly fifty percent of rural people of China's Xiayi county like to retain stalks on their fields instead of burning them, while thirty percent of farmers are still involved in burning crops. In our study, we find that there is a lack of labor for collecting stalks, no use of stalks in households, high stalk collecting cost, quickly preparing the land for the next crop plantation, poor monitoring, legal loopholes, and lack of support from government and other manufacturing companies to collect stalks are the loftiest reasons push farmers to burn stalks. This paper reveals that despite clear directions from the central and provincial governments, and frequent warnings from the local authorities, the stalk-burning problem is still severe in many parts of Xiayi county. This paper also finds legal gaps and other factors that obstacle the government's efforts to prevent and control open stalk burning. Therefore, in our study, we address these issues and propose some recommendations that could be helpful for the government and relevant authorities to combat the stalkburning problem from a county level like Xiayi.

Keywords agricultural production;air pollution;Henan province;legal implementation;stalk burning.

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