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Your residuecan earnmoney.

So can the paddy you keep flooded, the trees on your bund and crushed rock spread on your field. The soil under your crop is measured from the first season, so that it can earn the day a route opens for it. Every payment shows on a statement you can read.

Residue

Bought from you, carbonised, and the char goes back to your soil.

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Paid for what the farm produces.

Two women carrying straw along a bund between newly planted rice fields

Five ways your land earns.

Residue, water, trees, soil and rock can all earn from the same farm, starting together.

What it meansFrom the same farmResidueBiocharPaddyRice methaneTreesAgroforestrySoilSoil carbonRockRock weathering
Paid for the residue, and the char comes back to your field
A share of the money, when the credit is sold
Measured on your plot, every season
Shown on your statement, plot by plot
Measured from the first season, so it can earn the day a route opens
Asked only where the yield is protected first
You keep the fruit and the fodder
Sampled deep, paired against a neighbouring farm
Checked for your soil before anything is spread
Starts together with the others

From the field, every season.

Each of the five is measured on your plot, and each has its own lines on your statement.

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Your residue, bought.

The straw and stalks you would burn are bought from you and taken to the kiln. The char from your own residue comes back to your field, where it is measured in the soil. Where your district's residue goes to a biogas plant instead, it is bought for the plant.

BiocharBought from you
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Paddy, with the water managed.

Flooded paddy gives off methane, and managed water cuts it. We ask for it only where the yield is protected first.

Rice methaneYield protected first
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Trees on your bunds.

Trees on bunds and field edges. You keep the fruit and the fodder; the carbon in the wood is measured over the years.

AgroforestryYou keep the fruit
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The soil under your crop.

What the ground itself holds, sampled deep from the first season and paired against a neighbouring farm, so that a credit can be issued the day a route opens for it.

Soil carbonSampled deep
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Crushed rock on your field.

Ground basalt spread on your field draws carbon down as it weathers. It is measured in the soil and in the water that drains from it, and nothing is spread before your soil and the rock have been checked.

Rock weatheringChecked before spreading
Compare all five
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Trees and wheat on the same field.

Shisham trees along a bund between two fields of wheat

What one farm can earn from.

The credits are one line. Around the same farmer relationship we are building the rest, in words you can hold us to: nothing here is a figure, and nothing is promised before a sale.

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Your residue, bought

Straw and stalks you would burn are bought from you and taken to the mill. The char from your own residue comes back to your field.

Bought from you
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Credits from water, trees, soil and rock

When their credits are sold, you are paid your share, as your written agreement sets out. Nothing is promised as an amount before a sale.

A share when sold
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Inputs, and a market for what you grow

Inputs and implements from partner sellers at the cohort’s price, paid to the seller directly; and buyers introduced for the cohort’s crops. We never hold the goods, and never buy or sell your produce ourselves.

Arranged, not owned
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Public schemes, and crop insurance

Help with the paperwork for the programmes you are already entitled to, and enrolment with an insurer partner. We facilitate; we never insure.

Already yours
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Training, free; your data, back

Training at the centre and in your village, never deducted from any share. Soil tests, practice records and measurement results for your plot, returned to you. The data stays yours.

Yours

The application being built.

One record from farmer to plot to practice to measurement to credit to payment.

The farmer’s applicationOffline, in Hindi and other languages, with voice
  • Enrol and map your plot, with your written agreement
  • Your statement: amounts earned and paid, into your own bank, on fixed dates. A statement, not an account
  • Practice records, with photographs, that are also the measurement
  • Training, public schemes and crop insurance, with the paperwork done
  • Inputs from partner sellers, a market for your produce, and residue slips from the weighbridge

A field team’s screen and a buyer’s portal are built on the same record, and other project owners will be able to use it for their own farmers.

We do not ask you to change a practice that risks your harvest unless the loss is already covered. Until then, only what does not cut yield.

We never risk your yieldWithout cover

Residue, water, trees, soil and rock can all earn from the same farm, starting together.

Every credit typeNot just one

Baselines a government would recognise, measured every season, and a statement you can check.

Nothing hiddenIn the arithmetic

Questions

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How am I paid?
Your written agreement sets out what you are paid for, before you sign. Payments go to your own bank on fixed dates, with amounts earned and paid shown on a statement that you and your farmer organisation can read. A payment promised in your agreement is never cut.
Will it put my harvest at risk?
We do not ask you to change a practice that risks your harvest unless the loss is already covered. Until then, only what does not cut yield.
Do I need an account to see my statement?
The statement and farmer application are being designed so you can read your own record in your language. Access will be shared with you and the people you authorise, including your farmer organisation.
Where will you start?
In six states: Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Haryana, around the mills, ginneries, seed plants and sugar mills where residue already gathers, with the farmer organisations that bring their members to them.
Our farms already use natural farming. Can we take part?
Yes, for most of the credits. Soil carbon is the exception: a soil credit has to come from a new change in how the land is farmed, so a farm that converted years ago is checked for it separately.
Who owns my plot's carbon and its data?
Each plot joins with a written agreement, signed by you, that sets out its carbon rights. The data from your plot stays yours, and the project uses it only with your consent.
Who signs, and what if something goes wrong?
Consent is explained in your language at a village meeting and one to one, with time to decide. The landowner and the cultivator both sign; community land only by village-council resolution. A complaint can be raised through your organisation or the application, and it must be answered within a set time.
Is an amount promised before the credit is sold?
No. What is promised is written in your agreement before you sign: a price for your residue, or a share of the money received when a credit is sold. A payment promised in your agreement is never cut.
Does training cost anything?
No. Training is free and is never deducted from any share. Crop insurance, where offered, is through an insurer partner: we facilitate, we never insure.
What will the farmer application do?
It is being built to work offline, in Hindi and other local languages, with voice: enrolment and plot mapping, practice records, your statement, training, help with public schemes and with crop insurance through insurer partners, residue collection with weighbridge receipts, inputs and equipment, and links to crop buyers through contract farming and Agri Produce, a market linkage we arrange for the cohorts' crops. We never buy or sell your produce ourselves.