GOOGLE & MITTI LABS PARTNER TO ELIMINATE METHANE AND SCALE CLIMATE-SMART AG PRACTICES ACROSS INDIA'S RICE FIELDS

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.