Cooking outdoors, 600 yuan? Why not let farmers burn wood and cook? Will open-air fires cause pollution?

In recent years, with the great attention paid to environmental protection in various places, the environment has indeed improved significantly. However, in some areas, "firewood is banned and stoves are sealed", and farmers are unable to cook and cook, which has sparked heated discussions.

This has caused many people to complain.

The other day, another farmer was punished for cooking in the open air. What happened?

0 1, cooking in the open air was fined 600 yuan.

Recently, a video of a farmer burning a fire in the open air and being fined by 600 yuan became popular on the Internet.

It is reported that the incident occurred in Da 'an Town, Hainan Province. Since May, Da 'an Town has inspected the whole town in accordance with Hainan Province's Notice on Prohibition of Burning Straw in the Open, and it is forbidden to burn straw in farmland.

Xili Village, where Liu is located, is a key supervision area. Before the incident, Liu was caught burning straw in the open air many times and was educated by law enforcement inspectors many times.

On May 10, law enforcement inspectors went to Xili Village again to inspect and found that black smoke suddenly appeared between farmland. When they went forward to check, they found that Liu cooked with straw and firewood.

The inspector thought that the black smoke from Liu's cooking caused serious pollution to the surrounding environment, so he immediately imposed a fine on Liu in 600 yuan according to the Law on the Prevention and Control of Air Pollution and the Law on Administrative Punishment.

Of course, the document also clearly stated that if the parties have objections to the punishment, they can make statements and arguments within 5 days.

02. Why don't farmers burn wood for cooking?

This move has attracted many netizens' doubts. As can be seen from the document, the inspector thinks that the villager Liu's action is "causing great pollution" and violates the "straw burning ban" and should be fined.

Indeed, as early as 10 years ago, many places implemented the policy of "straw burning" on the grounds that burning straw would cause air pollution and easily lead to fires, and this policy has continued to this day.

However, although Liu cooks with straw, how much smoke can he produce when cooking in the open air? What pollution can a meal cause? Is it in line with the Air Pollution Prevention Law on the situation that burning straw and fallen leaves in the open air causes great pollution?

According to the Catalogue of Highly Polluted Fuels, agricultural and forestry residues, industrial wastes and their garbage are not within the scope of supervision, which shows that firewood and straw are not highly polluting fuels and naturally will not cause "big pollution".

However, from the perspective of personal cooking, the fume emission and open-air barbecue in the catering industry need to be regulated by the Air Pollution Prevention Law, and personal cooking is not in this regulatory category.

Many farmers' netizens have said: Why not let farmers burn firewood to cook? Actually, it's not once or twice. Taking 65438+ last February as an example, the ancient city of Shanhaiguan, Hebei Province was criticized for adopting a one-size-fits-all "blocking stove" approach; Soon after, in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province, the old man was frozen and cried in winter because of "banning firewood and sealing stoves".

Can all localities "ban firewood and seal stoves" while implementing environmental protection? You know, the official has never issued a document prohibiting the burning of firewood. The tradition of burning firewood for cooking in China has lasted for more than 5,000 years, but before the 1980s, the sky was blue and there was no pollution caused by burning firewood.

03. Official: The punishment has been cancelled.

With the hot discussion of netizens, local government departments also attach importance to this punishment.

The cadres in Xili Village said that many local villagers would burn straw after harvesting crops, which is prohibited by law.

In order to supervise, the village installed cameras in farmland. When Liu was cooking in the open air, his smoke was immediately detected.

Village cadres said that due to Liu's poor economic conditions, 600 yuan's fine was borne by the village committee, which could serve as an admonition and would not increase the burden on the parties concerned.

Of course, judging from the latest news, the town has revoked the punishment and given oral education again.

It is a good thing for all localities to attach importance to environmental protection, but everything should be people-oriented, and they should not be punished at will under the banner of environmental protection, which will only hurt farmers' feelings.

In fact, what I want to say is that farmers use firewood to cook, on the one hand, to reduce economic expenses. After all, straw firewood can be seen everywhere in the countryside, and there is no need to pay the gas bill for cooking with a stove. On the other hand, burning wood for cooking is actually a process of resource reuse, otherwise the long-term accumulation of rural straw in fields and ditches will inevitably occupy land and water resources, which is not conducive to agricultural production.

The most important thing is that firewood cooking has never been the main source of pollution, and there are not many people cooking with firewood in rural areas now. I hope everyone will abide by the relevant regulations.

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