GOOGLE & MITTI LABS PARTNER TO ELIMINATE METHANE AND SCALE CLIMATE-SMART AG PRACTICES ACROSS INDIA'S RICE FIELDS
Google has partnered with Mitti Labs to scale climate-smart agriculture across 100,000 hectares of rice farms in India. The initiative aims to reduce methane emissions and conserve water by transitioning farmers to sustainable irrigation practices.
Why it matters
This project addresses methane as a potent greenhouse gas while providing a scalable model for climate-smart agriculture in developing economies.
In the largest rice methane offtake to date, Mitti Labs will deliver one million high-integrity credits to Google by 2030
BENGALURU, India and SAN FRANCISCO , Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Deep-tech company Mitti Labs today announced a major five-year carbon credit agreement with Google to scale climate-smart agriculture across 100,000 hectares of smallholder rice farms in India. The announcement follows Mitti Labs' recent funding round showing an increase in momentum for using agriculture as a climate solution.
By transitioning over 70,000 farmers to water and methane-savings irrigation practices, this partnership aims to eliminate 3M tons of near-term warming impact (GWP20, equivalent to 1M tons of GWP100 impact) while conserving billions of gallons of water across critical regional basins.
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