Coming up: Mitti Labs founders on vision for sustainable rice farming
Rice is one of our biggest staples, here in India, but the way our farmers grow it is becoming increasingly unsustainable, as it contributes to depleting our water tables to dangerous levels.
Rice cultivation is also responsible for 10-12 percent of all methane released into the atmosphere from human activity — a gas that is 80-86 times more potent than CO2 in warming the planet over a 20-year period.
Devdut Dalal, Xavier Laguarta Soler and Nathan Torbick, founders of Mitti Labs, have a plan to change this, at scale. And they're already persuading some 70,000 rice farmers in India to try out their science-backed methods. In the process, they also want to translate the reduced methane emissions to equivalent carbon credits, so that the farmers benefit from the sale of those credits.
Catch the full conversation on Friday, June 5, World Environment Day, right here or wherever you get your podcasts. Here's a quick preview, with Nate giving us a sense of the potential for methane reduction and the water savings.
Rice cultivation is also responsible for 10-12 percent of all methane released into the atmosphere from human activity — a gas that is 80-86 times more potent than CO2 in warming the planet over a 20-year period.
Devdut Dalal, Xavier Laguarta Soler and Nathan Torbick, founders of Mitti Labs, have a plan to change this, at scale. And they're already persuading some 70,000 rice farmers in India to try out their science-backed methods. In the process, they also want to translate the reduced methane emissions to equivalent carbon credits, so that the farmers benefit from the sale of those credits.
Catch the full conversation on Friday, June 5, World Environment Day, right here or wherever you get your podcasts. Here's a quick preview, with Nate giving us a sense of the potential for methane reduction and the water savings.
