What is CarbonVerse?
A carbon-credit company in development. We are building projects on Indian farms and plants, services for other project owners in India and abroad, and access to buyers. Farmer payments will be recorded on a statement they can read.
Is it live yet?
Not yet. We are before the first cohort, the first aggregation point and the first buyer. Leave your email and we will write when the first project opens.
Which credits do you develop?
Biochar, rice methane, agroforestry, soil carbon, rock weathering, and biogas from residue. All of them start together, several on the same field, behind one measurement system.
Where is the company?
CarbonVerse Private Limited is being incorporated with its registered office at GIFT City in the Domestic Tariff Area, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, and we run it from there. A finance layer at GIFT IFSC is in our future plans.
Who is behind it?
Dr Ajay Singh Tomar and Mrs Punam Tomar, the founders. Dr Ajay has spent a working life in Indian agriculture.
About the founders.
How am I paid?
Your written agreement sets out what you are paid for, before you sign. Payments go to your own bank on fixed dates, with amounts earned and paid shown on a statement that you and your farmer organisation can read. A payment promised in your agreement is never cut.
Will it put my harvest at risk?
We do not ask you to change a practice that risks your harvest unless the loss is already covered. Until then, only what does not cut yield.
Do I need an account to see my statement?
The statement and farmer application are being designed so you can read your own record in your language. Access will be shared with you and the people you authorise, including your farmer organisation.
Where will you start?
In six states: Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Haryana, around the mills, ginneries, seed plants and sugar mills where residue already gathers, with the farmer organisations that bring their members to them.
Our farms already use natural farming. Can we take part?
Yes, for most of the credits. Soil carbon is the exception: a soil credit has to come from a new change in how the land is farmed, so a farm that converted years ago is checked for it separately.
Who owns my plot's carbon and its data?
Each plot joins with a written agreement, signed by you, that sets out its carbon rights. The data from your plot stays yours, and the project uses it only with your consent.
Who signs, and what if something goes wrong?
Consent is explained in your language at a village meeting and one to one, with time to decide. The landowner and the cultivator both sign; community land only by village-council resolution. A complaint can be raised through your organisation or the application, and it must be answered within a set time.
Is an amount promised before the credit is sold?
No. What is promised is written in your agreement before you sign: a price for your residue, or a share of the money received when a credit is sold. A payment promised in your agreement is never cut.
Does training cost anything?
No. Training is free and is never deducted from any share. Crop insurance, where offered, is through an insurer partner: we facilitate, we never insure.
What will the farmer application do?
It is being built to work offline, in Hindi and other local languages, with voice: enrolment and plot mapping, practice records, your statement, training, help with public schemes and with crop insurance through insurer partners, residue collection with weighbridge receipts, inputs and equipment, and links to crop buyers through contract farming and Agri Produce, a market linkage we arrange for the cohorts' crops. We never buy or sell your produce ourselves.
We run a biogas plant. Can its credits come to market?
That is the work we do for plant owners: eligibility, methodology, project documents, measurement and registry filings as your authorised representative. You keep the plant, its gas and its credits.
Why would a plant's credits come sooner than a farm's?
A plant that already runs has operating records: what went in, what came out, what was sold. A farm project has to be monitored over seasons before a credit exists.
Do you verify projects?
No. We are not a validation or verification body. An independent auditor checks every project.
Who pays whom?
Buyers pay the owner of the credits directly. We never hold another owner's credits or money.
How are you paid?
We invoice our fee after your sale. Costs charged by the registry or a laboratory are recharged at their actual cost and shown separately.
Do you hold credits to trade?
No. For our projects we develop and measure; for other owners we support the project and connect buyers. The buyer pays the owner directly, and credits are retired in the buyer's registry account.
Which methodologies?
Published international methodologies, recorded on an international registry. One gas source, one methodology and one registry per plot, so nothing is counted twice.
How are partners paid?
A farmer organisation is paid a share of credit sales against its own invoice; nobody is paid to sign. Equipment makers, labs and institutes are paid as suppliers, or on output where a maker holds the reactor. Funders and buyers pay project owners directly.
We run a mill. Why us?
Because the residue already arrives at your gate. A kiln, a dryer or a digester at your site is where the credit begins.