International Academy of Ecology and Environmental Sciences Proceedings of the International Academy of Ecology and Environmental Sciences 2220-8860 13 1 2023 3 1 The legal implementation plan for banning of stalk burning: An empirical study of China's Xiayi County 1-17 EN Md. Ziaul Islam Shuwei Wang Jie Zhang Xinyu Du Xing Wang http://www.iaees.org/publications/journals/piaees/articles/2023-13(1)/legal-implementation-plan-for-banning-of-stalk-burning.pdf> 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.