Contamination by sugar cane harvest

By Karol Sofía López García

Sugarcane harvest pollutes the air and soil of Palmira

The sugar cane cooking or any vegetation generates ashes, gases and smoke that pollute the atmospheric conditions and generate bad temperatures.

All this causes diseases in people such as asthma or lung cancer when breathing polluted air, or the ashes that remain on the floor or on clothes and something needs to be done about it. It is good for farmers to do their job, but I do not agree with pollution  measures must be taken to pollute as much as possible.

The Dagma (Administrative Department of Environmental Management) wants to make this an environmentally sustainable model, which contributes to its competitiveness in a local and global context.
This can be avoided by paying the workers to cut the leaves instead of burning them and I firmly believe that it is a good idea because I think it is wrong to burn it as it leaves behind ashes.

The councilors and palmiranos aspire to have in the next few days the signing of a concertation agreement for clean production in which non-burning must be included as a gradual process of clearing this agricultural practice in the field of sugar cane. in the city of Palmira, said Councilor Correa.
Te aconsejo que no quemes las hojas de la caña y que puedas reutilizarlas para otras cosas y no desperdiciarlas.