Interview with CarbonMint: Harnessing nature tech to transform Indian Agriculture
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Across India, farmers are under growing pressure: soil is degrading, water is becoming scarcer, and agriculture is contributing more to carbon emissions. These interconnected challenges threaten rural livelihoods and the country’s long-term food security.
CarbonMint, based in Andhra Pradesh, is working at the heart of these issues. By partnering with farmer groups, they are supporting a shift toward practices that restore soil health, conserve water, and cut emissions, all while strengthening farm incomes and resilience.
Their model blends local knowledge with accessible technologies such as sensors, mobile apps, digital records, and more to help farmers reduce risk, make better decisions, and unlock new income streams, from carbon credits to more reliable market access.
In this interview, CarbonMint team shares what they are seeing on the ground, what’s working, and how nature tech could help shape the future of Indian agriculture.
Q. What challenges is CarbonMint addressing in the agricultural sector?
As soil health depletes, water becomes increasingly scarce, and emissions rise at an alarming rate in India, we are facing not just a climate crisis but also a looming threat to food security. At CarbonMint, our mission is to empower every farm ecosystem to both reverse these trends and transform farms into high-value assets through technology, delivering improved profitability, stronger social outcomes, and positive environmental impact.
Q. In your perspective, what are the primary obstacles to scaling regenerative agriculture and carbon credit systems?
While responsible farming and technology can reverse negative trends, farmers struggle with labor shortages, high cultivation costs, limited market access, and lack of funds. CarbonMint addresses these by organizing farming ecosystems at a cluster level- amortizing technology costs and mitigating risks as farmers transition to climate friendly agriculture.
Q. Can you provide an overview of CarbonMint's platform and services?
We work with farmers through farmer producer organizations in order to organize them and amortize costs associated with technology interventions. CarbonMint platform provides a codified package of practices along with farm advisory that encourages regenerative agriculture, resource optimization methods that enable efficiency operations across farmers that work as a “collective” as well as traceability of land and produce. This is made possible through integration with mechanization, IoT, blockchain, remote sensing and AI. These technologies help reduce the cost of cultivation but above and beyond this, they can expect to get better access to services, consumer markets and carbon credits through our platform.
Q. What is the origin story of CarbonMint?
The founders of CarbonMint ran their own integrated farm producing quality food that surpassed even organic standards. Soon, they realized the imperative to invest in technology and provide vertically integrated solutions for farmers and agribusinesses. This insight led to the formation of CarbonMint, founded on the idea of leveraging technology interventions to improve farm ecosystems while combating the climate crisis through nature-based carbon sequestration approaches.
Q. Could you share one or two success stories from CarbonMint's journey so far?
In 2025, we landed a project with the SBI Foundation aimed at transitioning 1,000 farmers from traditional transplantation based rice cultivation to Direct Seeded Rice (DSR), the most widely consumed staple crop globally. This project not only reduces water consumption by 20–30% and lowers cultivation costs, but also eases the labor burden of transplantation, a task typically performed by women. This shift addresses both a social and public health issue impacting women farmers. CarbonMint is proud to serve as a technology partner in this initiative, working alongside the Indian Institute of Rice Research and leading agronomy experts.
Our solution was also showcased by our partner, Jeypee Farms at a Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) event in April 2025. Jeypee Farms leverages CarbonMint’s tools and product-quality QR codes to raise consumer awareness and promote GI tags for responsibly grown chilli crops.
Q. How does CarbonMint fit into the broader nature tech ecosystem?
Sustainable farming practice is the need of the hour in order to ensure food security and reverse the effects of global warming, soil depletion and water shortage. As CarbonMint, we see that it is critical to learn from the best practices around the world, cross pollinate ideas as well as increase advocacy and Nature Tech Collective is a perfect place to achieve these goals.
Q. What motivated CarbonMint to join the Nature Tech Collective?
We hope to build networks across the globe through our participation in Nature Tech Collective and learn from each other. There are several experts working on carbon projects including Blue Carbon. In terms of science, technology and business models, there is a lot of scope to learn from the other members in Nature Tech Collective that can be applied in our context.
Q. How can others best support CarbonMint's work?
We look forward to partnerships in networking, technology, research and funding to achieve our mission.
Q. What are the next steps for CarbonMint?
Our aim is to transform farm ecosystems into high value assets so that farmers are profitable, farming communities are uplifted, and natural/regenerative agriculture becomes the norm. We begin by digitizing at least 1% of our farmer organizations in India, with plans to expand to other geographies as we grow. As farming communities engage with these technologies, we expect them to realize the benefits of timely farm advisory, resource optimization, traceability, improved market access, and carbon credits—ultimately improving their topline and reducing their bottom line over time.
CarbonMint’s journey demonstrates how technology and nature based solutions can work hand in hand to create a more resilient, sustainable future for the agricultural sector in India and beyond. As the climate crisis deepens, their work reminds us that innovation doesn’t always mean disruption, it can also mean restoration.
Visit CarbonMint’s website and follow them on LinkedIn to learn more about their vision and mission, and to stay updated on their inspiring journey of driving sustainable farming innovation.
