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Description	English: Hundreds of fires burn in northwest India in October-November every year. This image is the courtesy of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite. This image was acquired on October 2009. NASA archives show these fires as routine every year. The fires are outlined in red squares, in this zoomable map. The smog and smoke is the thin white-gray strip stretching from northwest India to the east along India's major rivers. Though no single fire is large or particularly smoky, the fires cumulatively produce a heavy veil of smoke that swaths northern India in early winter - contributing to its winter smog. This cluster of fires burns every year in October and November. The fires are in an agricultural region where October marks the end of the Kharif crop (autumn crop) and the beginning of the Rabi crop (spring crop). The fires are set by farmers, who are clearing the land between harvest and planting. Other than being a major source of air pollution, the burn practice is a loss of fodder and biomass fuel.
Date	16 December 2013, 14:22:05
Source	http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/fires/main/world/2009305-nwindia.html
Author	NASA

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