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The farm fires helping to fuel India's deadly air / 36NV37W
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Blazing flames light the sky as Indian farmer Ali Sher burns his fields to clear them for new crops, a common but illegal practice that is fuelling deadly pollution killing millions.
Burning strips the fertility of fields, has a ruinous impact on India's economy and sends plumes of acrid smoke packed with dangerous cancer-causing particles drifting over a densely-populated belt of northern India, including capital New Delhi's 30 million people. But it is cheap -- for farmers at least -- to carry out. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES