The Problem We Face
India, the second largest agro-based economy with year-round crop cultivation, generates a large amount of agricultural waste, including crop residues. In the absence of adequate sustainable management practices, huge quantity of crop waste is burned every year in India, causing excessive particulate matter emissions and air pollution. Crop residue burning has become a major environmental problem causing health issues as well as contributing to global warming.
The health Impact of Stubble Emissions
Particulate matter 10 and 2.5 (PM): Eye irritation, asthma, bronchitis, heart and lung damage, cancers
Carbon Dioxide (CO2): Rapid breathing, rapid heart rate and clumsiness
Methane (CH4): Suffocation, dizziness, headaches, fatigue
Carbon Monoxide (CO): Lightheadedness, confusion, headache, vertigo, and flu-like effects
Nitrous Oxide (N2O): Long term inhalation can cause damage to brain,

Nitrogen Oxide (NOx): Cough, airway infection, chest pain, difficulty in breathing

Sulphur Dioxide (SO2): Eye irritation, wheezing, chest tightness, asthma
Our Solution
Taking in to account the image as displayed on the left. It is important to understand that the rural areas where agro wastes are burned are not near the coast like Mumbai is. This means Despite the fact that Mumbai may not be partaking in activities like stubble burning, the city is still Vulnerable to the harmful emissions being passed above it from where they are being burned, due to land and see breeze. Thus the arising situation for a city like Mumbai’s pollution levels can technically Only be solved by first improving the Stubble burning activities in the cities and districts around it.
At SASA Waste to Energy we give farmers an alternative to burning, by developing infrastructure and capacity by employing and operating over 5000 square balers which can each collect approx 10 mt of cane trash from the fields in a day for 180 days of the sugarcane harvesting season, thus creating a capacity to collect over 9 million metric tonnes in a season and setup 126 stock depots as required in the 126 sub-districts (talukas) of the 12 head districts of Western Maharashtra sugarcane areas. (also called "the Sugar Belt of India)"
We then convert the same into Green Bio-Coal by transporting them using Tralers, in our very own developed Green Coal Plants. Our Green Bio Coal then goes on to burn as fuel alongside regular coal in State Government owned Coal Power Plants in a green sustainable manner, hence emitting a negligible permissible quantum of air pollution and the lowest possible amount of ash which is rich in phosphate for fertilizer. Not only is this ash used to make compost and is distributed to farmers FREE of any charge, but Pollution Levels are drastically lower than what they would be if the stubble was burnt in open fields. In addition to this, we cut down the use of Indian Coal in regular coal PowerPlants by providing them with an alternative of Green Coal.
As shown in the image on the left, The end product displays a clean and pollution-free rural village where there is no stubble burning, due to the Cycle envisioned at SASA Waste to Energy.
This positively effects the level of pollution over all of Maharashtra where the burning took place and even the cities which were affected by the emissions due to the Land and Sea breeze like Mumbai.
In Conclusion,
- Farmers Get Additional Income for their Stubble
- Stubble Burning Air Pollution is Eradicated
- Coal Consumption is Replaced with Green Coal
- Coal Powerplant’s reduce their pollution level
- Coal Ash Disposal issues are cut down by 80%
The Team
RAJESH NARWADE (Director)
Currently 30 years old, Rajesh is a resident of the Parbani District of Maharashtra State and is a very active and energetic personality handling the local field level going from place to place and holding discussions with farmers and rural area work. Having a background in the farming business and being one who thinks about what the farmers do with the biomass stubble and how to mobilize this enormous potential with hands on experience. He is the key person who handles Rural area work and farmer relations at the grass root level by having 5 managers from EACH of the 14 districts reporting to him.
PRAVIN PAWAR (Director)
Currently 32 years old, Pravin is Graduate and a resident of the Satara District of Maharashtra State and is a very active and energetic personality handling the local field level going from place to place and holding discussions with farmers and rural area work. Having a background in the farming business and being one who thinks about what the farmers do with the biomass stubble and how to mobilize this enormous potential with hands on experience. He is the key person who handles Rural area work and farmer relations at the grass root level by having 5 managers from EACH of the 14 districts reporting to him.
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