Since the Green Revolution in the 1960s, India has been immensely dependent on their monoculture of rice and wheat to provide food for over half of its population. Deeply embedded in the nation’s food security, grain monocultures generate millions of tons of food and straw. However, due to an entrenched economic cycle, the byproduct (straw) is commonly and frequently burned in place, severely polluting India’s air and ground. This project utilizes Straw Bale as a scalable solution to the stubble burning, building the remaining eleven million homes from the PMAY-G scheme from straw bale. By redesigning the system of this agricultural byproduct, we can take the initiative to transform waste into opportunity — where fields no longer burn, but instead, build our futures
