Arrangement Require Over 100,000 tonnes of Co2 Elimination (CDR) throughout 3 Years
GURUGRAM, India, Jan. 15, 2026/ PRNewswire/– Varaha, a leading designer of co2 elimination (CDR) jobs with smallholder farmers throughout Asia, today revealed a significant offtake contract with Microsoft for biochar carbon elimination in India
Varaha will establish 18 commercial gasification reactors that will run for 15 years, with an overall forecasted elimination volume going beyond 2 million tonnes of CO TWO over the task’s life time.
The task sources cotton stalks from smallholder farms in Maharashtra, India for usage as the feedstock for biochar production. After harvest, these stalks are dealt with as waste biomass, and open-field burning is a typical practice throughout the area’s cotton belt. This task offers an alternative usage for the stalks, transforming them into biochar through Varaha’s biomass gasification centers and sequestering biogenic carbon for centuries.
Providing Regional Effect
Varaha’s biochar task likewise provides quantifiable advantages for farmers and neighborhoods:
- Enhancement in Air Quality: The task alleviates the prevalent burning of cotton crop residue, substantially lowering PM 2.5 toxins that add to bad air quality. By supplying a financially feasible option to field burning, the effort takes on a significant source of seasonal air contamination.
- Promo of Regenerative Farming: Farmers taking part in the program embrace regenerative practices like crop residue mulching and biochar application to soils, enhancing soil health, water retention, and long-lasting farming efficiency.
- Raising Farmer Livelihoods: The program straight boosts the incomes of countless smallholder farmers, who get payment both for contributing farming biomass and for carrying out crop residue incorporation practices.
” This contract shows that high-integrity carbon elimination can drive transformative co-benefits for neighborhoods and communities,” stated Madhur Jain, Varaha CEO. “We’re not simply getting rid of carbon– we’re developing financial rewards for farmers to alleviate open burning of crop residues.”
The task’s very first reactor will run together with Varaha’s 52-acre cotton research study farm in Maharashtra, where Varaha works straight with farmers to evaluate sustainable practices, consisting of soil application of biochar, under real-world conditions. With as much as 18 overall reactors moneyed throughout India’s cotton belt through Microsoft’s dedication, the focus stays clear: scaling rapidly while putting farmers initially.
Setting New Standards for Asian Carbon Markets
The contract signals growing acknowledgment of the area’s capacity for premium carbon elimination jobs. Biochar provides irreversible carbon storage on geological timescales while supporting farming systems, making it among the most appealing paths for resilient co2 elimination.
” This offtake contract widens the variety of Microsoft’s carbon elimination portfolio with Varaha’s biochar task style that is both scalable and resilient. It represents an advance in scaling biochar CDR development in Asia and advancing co-benefits for farmers– enhanced soils, cleaner air, and shared financial chance,” stated Phil Goodman, program director, CDR at Microsoft.
The credits created through the Varaha program satisfy strenuous requirements for measurement, reporting, and confirmation, making sure that each tonne represents real, irreversible carbon elimination.
About Varaha
Varaha is a leading designer of co2 elimination (CDR) jobs in Asia, with an objective of scaling smallholder farmer-led environment services to get rid of carbon from the environment and enhance rural incomes. Focusing on regenerative farming, agroforestry, biochar, and improved rock weathering jobs throughout South Asia, Varaha has actually originated an innovation- and science-driven technique to carbon task advancement considering that its starting in 2022. Varaha is headquartered in Gurugram, India, and runs 20 carbon jobs throughout India, Nepal, and Bangladesh
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