Sustainable Carbon Farming Model
Our innovative model encourages organic farmers to dedicate 25-50% of their land to cultivate fast-growing hardwood trees. Here’s how it works:
Tailored Tree Cultivation: We provide saplings of ideal tree varieties suited to each farm’s unique conditions, including rainfall, soil type, and altitude.
High Carbon Absorption: The trees we select absorb more carbon dioxide per hectare per year than any other vegetation in the region.
Zero-Emission Processing: Each year, the energy trees are harvested and used as feedstock for our zero-emission continuous carbonization units operating across various industrial locations in South India.
Utilizing Excess Heat: The excess heat from the carbonization process is repurposed for industrial heating, replacing fossil fuel-powered heaters.
Eco-Friendly Products: The char produced is further processed into ECO-BBQ briquettes and enriched BIOCHAR.
Free Organic Fertilizer: The enriched biochar is returned to the farmers as a free organic fertilizer.
Market Insights: We keep our farmers updated with the latest market trends, helping them choose the right crops for cultivation.
High-Value Crop Cultivation: Farmers dedicate 10-25% of their land to growing high-value products such as aromatic and medicinal herbs.
Local and Export Markets: The harvested food crops are sold at local organic markets by the farmers, while high-value herbs are processed and exported by our company as dried leaves, powders, and aromatic oils.
This collaborative model not only enhances soil health and carbon sequestration but also provides farmers with economic benefits and sustainable agricultural practices.
Tremendous Scalability Potential
Significant Workforce: 50% of the Indian workforce, approximately 500 million people, is employed in agriculture.
Small-Scale Farmers: India has 120 million farm-owning families, with most being small-scale marginal farmers holding 2-5 hectares per family.
Global Agricultural Leader: India has the largest population involved in agriculture worldwide.
Impactful Change: Revolutionary changes in this sector will greatly benefit farmers’ well-being.
Open for Collaboration: We welcome new partnerships to expand this unique sustainable model.
Ecological Enhancement: Our model aims to improve both the environment and farmers’ livelihoods.
Reviving Soil Health
Characteristics of Healthy, Living Soil:
1. Retains more water.
2. Prevents runoff.
3. Provides habitat for beneficial microorganisms.
4. Sequesters more carbon.
5. Maintains an optimal composition of 45% soil aggregate, 5% organic matter, 25% air, and 25% water.
Carbon is a non-bonding material, allowing air to circulate freely and facilitating natural nitrogen fixation by diazotrophic organisms in the topsoil.
Due to its high porosity, carbon can hold more than twice its weight in water. Ideal topsoil should contain at least 50% organic carbon within the first foot of depth, similar to rainforest soil.
Let’s Cultivate Healthy Soils to Sustain Agriculture. There is No Planet B.
The Importance of Soil Carbon
The world’s soil holds onto 2.2 trillion tons of carbon—more than the combined amount of carbon in the atmosphere and in vegetation.
The porous structure of topsoil carbon serves as a living habitat for microbes. These microbes play a crucial role in mitigating the greenhouse gas effect by fixing atmospheric CO2 and nitrogen in the soil, thus enhancing soil fertility.
This carbon gatekeeping is critical because carbon is a key component of the greenhouse gas CO2, which is currently at record levels in Earth’s atmosphere.