Chandigarh, Dec 8 (IANS) Saying that official figures miss over 90 per cent of large farm fires in Haryana and Punjab as farmers shift burning timings, a new report on Monday revealed a critical blind spot in India’s efforts to curb stubble burning. The report also pointed out the need to expand focus to emerging biomass burning hotspots in Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Madhya Pradesh (MP).

The Stubble Burning Status Report — 2025 by the International Forum for Environment, Sustainability and Technology (iFOREST) showed while government data suggests a dramatic 90 per cent decline in farm fires in Punjab and Haryana, this reduction is largely a result of limitations in the current monitoring system run by the Consortium for Research on Agroecosystem Monitoring and Modeling from Space (CREAMS) of

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