Creattura and NIA Sign MoU on Carbon Credits for AWD Rice Farming
The signing puts an existing AWD effort under NIA's new regulations for carbon credit projects, turning scattered field work into a formal framework that can be evaluated and registered.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
Creattura Co., Ltd. and the Philippine National Irrigation Administration have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to institutionalize a carbon credit project built on Alternate Wetting and Drying water management. The agreement covers four National Irrigation Systems in Pangasinan Province and one in Cagayan Province, targeting roughly 20,000 farmers, and was signed at the NIA headquarters in Quezon City.
The MoU was signed at the NIA headquarters in Quezon City and covers four irrigation systems in Pangasinan Province plus one in Cagayan Province. It sets up a formal way for NIA and Creattura to evaluate project results and move toward scale-up and registration.
Alternate Wetting and Drying alternates dry periods with irrigation; under appropriate conditions it can cut methane emissions from rice paddies while keeping yields. Creattura has been developing and running AWD projects in the Philippines for more than three years.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
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- ASCII.jp クレアトゥラとNIA、フィリピンにおけるAWDの推進に向けてMoUを締結