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How it works

From the field to a credit: enrol the farm, measure it every season, register it on an international registry, issue the credit, and write the farmer's statement.

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Every plot, every season.

A perforated water tube standing in a young rice field, an egret lifting off

Five steps, one plot

Each step is done for each plot, and each one leaves a line on the farmer's statement.

1 Enrol 2 Measure 3 Register 4 Issue 5 Statement
  1. Enrol
  2. Measure
  3. Register
  4. Issue
  5. Statement

The steps

Enrol the farm, plot by plot.

Each farmer enrols with their plot. Nothing is asked that risks the harvest unless the loss is already covered.

FarmerPlot
WhenAt enrolment

Measure, do not survey.

Sensors, samples and satellite every season. Audited output from the kiln, not its nameplate.

SensorsSamplesSatellite
WhenEvery season

One methodology, one registry.

A published international methodology and an international registry. One gas source, one method, one registry per plot.

MethodologyRegistry
WhenBefore issuance

Issue and retire.

Credits are issued under recognised methodologies and retired in the buyer's own registry account.

IssuanceRetirement
WhenAfter verification

Write the farmer's statement.

Every payment shows on the farmer's own statement, shared with the farmer and the people they authorise.

StatementFarmer
WhenOn fixed payment dates

On the farm: where each route can go today.

All six start together.

A steel retort beside stacked straw bales in a grain yardRemoval

Biochar

Straw and stalks that would burn are carbonised at the aggregation point, and the char goes back into the farmer's soil.

Can go to
Voluntary registries abroad
Measured by
Kiln output and the soil
Storm clouds and shafts of light over rice fields and an irrigation channelAvoidance

Rice methane

Flooded paddy gives off methane; managed water cuts it. Asked only where the yield is protected first.

Can go to
Voluntary registries; the one farm route with a path in India’s own carbon market
Measured by
Water level and the gas
Young mango trees in rows with wheat growing between themRemoval

Agroforestry

Trees on bunds and field edges. The farm keeps the fruit and the fodder; the carbon in the wood is measured over years.

Can go to
Voluntary registries abroad
Measured by
The trees, over years
A blue drum of fermenting farm preparation beside mulched beds, a cow resting behindRemoval

Soil carbon

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.

Can go to
Voluntary registries, for a cohort at the moment of conversion
Measured by
Deep soil samples
A tractor spreading crushed rock across a ploughed fieldRemoval

Rock weathering

Ground basalt spread on the field draws carbon down as it weathers, measured in the soil and in the water that drains from it.

Can go to
Voluntary registries abroad, where a buyer accepts it
Measured by
Soil and water chemistry
A biogas plant at dusk, straw bales under a shed and trees behind the wallAvoidance

Biogas from residue

Residue the field cannot use goes to a plant someone else owns, and we develop the credit for it.

Can go to
Trading between countries under the Paris Agreement, the one farm-waste route
Measured by
The plant's metered output

One district at a time

The mill, ginnery, seed plant or sugar mill where residue already arrives is the hub: a kiln, dryer or digester at its gate, a collection centre and a field office. Villages, village trainers and farmers are the spokes, and the farmer organisation runs the point. We prove one district end to end, then copy it.

1 Villages 2 Collection 3 The mill 4 Field office 5 Registry
  1. Villages
  2. Collection
  3. The mill
  4. Field office
  5. Registry

The path of a payment.

From the plot to the farmer’s own bank.

  1. Measured on the plotEvery season
  2. An auditor checksOnly then a credit exists
  3. A buyer paysThe owner of the credits
  4. The farmer’s shareAs the agreement sets out
  5. The statementPlot by plot
  6. Their own bankOn a fixed date

How the money moves, and who checks it

A buyer pays the owner of the credits.

For our own projects that is us; for a plant owner’s or another developer’s project, the buyer pays that owner and we invoice our fee afterwards. We are paid only for our own credits, our own services and our own introduction fees.

BuyerOwner
Through usOnly our own credits

The farmer’s share, in writing.

What a farmer is paid, and when, is set out in a written agreement before they join. Their share goes into their own bank on fixed dates, on a statement that holds no balance.

FarmerStatement
Through usOur own account

Residue bought, char returned.

The residue is bought from the farmer, with a slip from the weighbridge; the char goes back to the same plot. Nothing is promised as an amount before a sale.

ResidueBiochar
Through usWith a slip

Partners and sellers.

The farmer organisation is paid a share of sales against its own invoice; nobody is paid to sign. Equipment makers, labs and institutes are paid as suppliers, or on output where a maker holds the reactor. An input seller is paid by the farmer directly.

OrganisationSuppliers
Through usNever for sellers

Funders and lenders.

A forward purchase is paid to the project owner and settled in credits issued into the funder’s own account. Construction finance moves from lender to owner; we arrange it and are paid a fee. We never lend.

FundersLenders
Through usNever

Who checks it.

Consent is explained at a village meeting, in the farmer’s language; landowner and cultivator both sign; a complaint must be answered within a set time. An auditor who is not us verifies, and only then does a credit exist.

ConsentAudit
Checked bySomeone who is not us

On the ground.

The centre, the local points, and the two markets we arrange rather than own.

Demonstration plots of wheat and mustard around a thatched shelter, a mango tree beside it

The experience centre.

On our own land on the first corridors, once it is built: where farmers, partners, buyers and visitors will see the practices and the measurement work on real plots. Trainers trained here teach in their villages. A provenance room where a buyer or an auditor can follow a credit from plot to registry. Soil results a visitor takes home, and honest results shown even when a plot is flat. Planned with agricultural universities, research institutes and public bodies.

Research and trainingReal plots
A village shop with sacks and cans on its shelves, a tractor parked outside

Local points, run by partners.

A network of training, technology and farmer-access points run by franchise partners under our name, application, systems and training. A farmer learns there, collects what was ordered from partner sellers, and brings what was grown. The operator holds its own stock and trades on its own account.

Franchise partnersFarmer access
Jute sacks and heaps of grain in a store shed, with a grain cleaner

Agri Produce, and the inputs market.

Both arranged, not owned. Agri Produce is a market linkage for the cohorts’ crops: grading, traceability and buyers introduced, for a fee. The inputs market is a place inside the application where sellers list inputs, tools and implements and the farmer pays the seller directly. We never hold goods or anyone else’s money. Biochar may also be supplied for other lawful uses.

Agri ProduceInputs market

The order of things

The company, and the first conversations.

Finding the farmer organisations, the mills and the first buyer who will say yes before there is anything to show.

Farmer organisationsMillsBuyers
StageNow

One cohort, measured from day one.

A small cohort on one set of fields, practice changed and soil sampled at the start.

CohortSoil
StageFirst season

Registration, audit, the first credits.

Registered on the evidence of a season, verified by an auditor who is not us. Only then does a credit exist.

RegistryAudit
StageAfter the season

More corridors, the centre, the finance layer.

The same system on more ground, the research centre on our own land, and the finance layer if the regulator allows it.

CorridorsCentreFinance
StageThen

Questions

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What is CarbonVerse?
A carbon-credit company in development. We are building projects on Indian farms and plants, services for other project owners in India and abroad, and access to buyers. Farmer payments will be recorded on a statement they can read.
Is it live yet?
Not yet. We are before the first cohort, the first aggregation point and the first buyer. Leave your email and we will write when the first project opens.
Which credits do you develop?
Biochar, rice methane, agroforestry, soil carbon, rock weathering, and biogas from residue. All of them start together, several on the same field, behind one measurement system.
Where is the company?
CarbonVerse Private Limited is being incorporated with its registered office at GIFT City in the Domestic Tariff Area, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, and we run it from there. A finance layer at GIFT IFSC is in our future plans.
Who is behind it?
Dr Ajay Singh Tomar and Mrs Punam Tomar, the founders. Dr Ajay has spent a working life in Indian agriculture. About the founders.