How do people in your country handle crops remains after harvest season?

Question

Do they burn them? bury them? State the country you are referring to.
If they are allowed to burn them openly, do they have to get a permit?
(focus on handling the remains)

Answer 1

Australia calling.

That depends entirely on the crop, where it is being grown and what management plan is in place.

Burning crop trash is very rare in Australia because soils are so nutrient deficient and fragile and water is in such short supply. Burning causes the loss of major nutrients as well as leaving the soil open to erosion and moisture.

Normally post-harvest trash is simply left on the surface until the land is prepared for the next crop, and then it is ploughed in. In the case of grain crops such as sorghum sheep or cattle are often put into the padddock tobe fattened off the trash.

For some heavier crops such as sugar cane or cotton the trash itself may be harvested and mulched or slashed to break it into manageable portions, though mostly that is done as part of the final harvest.

Zero till cultivation is gaining in many areas, and in those case the trash is usually left on the surface as mulch.

In those rare instances where the trash is burned a permit from the local fire authority is always required and only granted if weather conditions permit and if one can show sufficient control procedures are in place, including fire breaks, sufficient personnel to contain the blaze etc.

Answer 2

It depends greatly on the type of the remains.Some is used in compost pit.Once mature its put back in the farms in the form of manure.
Some is mixed with cow dung,backed and used as fuel.
If soft it is at times fed to animals e.g. cereal remains are fed to poultry

Answer 3

Usage in Switzerland:
- burning material (producing heat)
- making biological gas
- stray for stables

Answer 4

burn in Australia and then turn the ash back into the soil

Answer 5

In India it is fodder.Some Indian politicians steal it and sell it in black.