Farmers enroll 10 million acres in Terraton Initiative

Farmers enroll 10 million acres in Terraton Initiative

Farmers have submitted more than 10 million acres of cropland into the Terraton Initiative by Boston-based Indigo Agriculture.

The Terraton Initiative is a global effort to remove

one trillion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and use it to enrich soils.

 

Indigo Carbon Vice President Edward Smith says it helps measure soil carbon and incentivize growers to adopt practices that will help combat climate change.

“What we’re developing is an effective, accurate, scalable, cost-efficient process for measuring that carbon in the soil and quantifying it and selling them as carbon offsets,” he says.

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