Varaha is further investigating the potential of Enhanced Rock Weathering – which boosts soil fertility and sequesters atmospheric carbon in the long term – after raising US$8.7 million.
Most urban farms are decidedly low-tech such crops grown in soil on open-air plots. But owing to infrastructure, supplies such as fertiliser and irrigation water, they have a higher carbon footprint than conventionally grown produce, claims new research.
Canada-based precision ag-tech and clean-tech company CO2 GRO has agreed a Technology Adaptation Project (TAP) with a major US greenhouse lettuce grower to investigate how it can impact lettuce yield, product quality, CO2 savings, and overall financial...
A comprehensive new report has revealed Asia to be a significant contributor to global agri-food CO2 equivalent emissions, producing 42% of the world's total in 2020.
Scalability remains the biggest hurdle for new tech to play a major role in solving agricultural carbon emission challenges in the Asia Pacific region, no matter how well these do at a pilot stage, according to an expert panel.