Intelisha Story & VisionEliminating Crop Burning through High-Durability Carbon Removal
Verified, durable carbon removal from Indian crop residue, with fair payments to farmers. We aggregate non-fodder crop residue across smallholder farming belts in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, pyrolyse it into permanent biochar, and verify soil carbon removal with transparent cryptographic MRV.
Why Cotton & Chilli Stalk Residues?
India generates over 500 million tonnes of agricultural crop residue annually. While rice straw in Punjab attracts national headlines, millions of tonnes of woody cotton stalks and chilli stalks across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are openly burned in fields every winter.
Inedible by Cattle (100% Additionality)
Unlike wheat or legume straw, cotton stalks contain toxic gossypol and chilli stalks contain pungent capsaicin, making them entirely unpalatable and toxic for livestock. They cannot be fed to cattle; farmers have no choice but to burn them to prepare fields for the next crop.
Degraded Sandy Soils Need Carbon
The agrarian corridors of Prakasam, Guntur, and Nalgonda feature coarse littoral sands and chalka soils with soil organic carbon (SOC) depleted below 0.35%. Incorporating biochar back into these soils creates a permanent water and nutrient buffer.
Meaningful Smallholder Income
By establishing mobile collection networks, farmers earn guaranteed floor payments of ₹1,500 – ₹2,200 per tonne of dry stalk, adding ₹18,000 to ₹28,000 in seasonal income per 5-acre farm.
Four Pillars of the Intelisha Biochar Engine
Intelisha operates an integrated field-to-reactor MRV platform: mapping smallholder plots, weighing crop residue at mobile weighbridges, tracking high-temperature pyrolysis runs, and logging sub-surface soil incorporation into an immutable SHA-256 hash chain.
Intelisha Carbon
Residue aggregation, high-temperature pyrolysis, batch MRV, and 100+ year durable carbon dioxide removal (CDR).
Corporate Offtakes
Indexed forward purchase agreements, registry-governed CORCs, and full cryptographic batch provenance for corporate sustainability leaders.
Farmer Feedstock Program
Guaranteed per-tonne residue payments, zero-smoke burning elimination, and subsidized biochar soil amendments for smallholder growers.
MRV & Registry Standards
Pyrolysis temperature telemetry, accredited H:Corg assays, and SHA-256 hash-chained tamper-evident audit logs aligned with Puro.earth and Isometric.
Three Revenue Streams
Sustainable commercialization built on long-term carbon offtakes, fee-for-service MRV deployment, and agronomic biochar distribution:
Carbon Credit Offtake Sales
Long-term forward purchase agreements (FPAs) and spot credit sales to corporate buyers seeking high-permanence (100+ to 1,000-year) carbon dioxide removal credits.
MRV & Project Development Services
Turnkey project development, pyrolysis reactor telemetry integration, soil baseline sampling, and digital registry submission services for regional agricultural partners.
Biochar Soil Amendment Sales
Sale of micro-dosed, nutrient-charged biochar soil conditioner to commercial orchards, chilli estates, and horticulture growers seeking drought resilience.
Committed to Radical MRV Transparency
Intelisha is pre-registration; 0 carbon removal credits have been issued or sold to date. We do not sell unverifiable offsets. Every credit forward contract is governed by independent registry methodologies with third-party VVB validation.