
← ASH CLOUD28 sept. · 49 min
Profitable climate solutions for small holder farmers with Devdut Dalal Mitti Labs
Profitable climate solutions for small holder farmers with Devdut Dalal Mitti Labs
Rice feeds more people than any other crop, and it is grown in a way that is quietly expensive. Globally, a third of all groundwater extraction goes to rice farming. And because those fields sit flooded for weeks at a time, the resulting anaerobic conditions produce methane. Rice accounts for around 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions, comparable to the aviation industry, and about 12% of all methane. In India, rice covers some 40 million hectares, a quarter of the country's agricultural la...