Varaha Locks In A Five-Year CDR Deal With Louis Dreyfus Company

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) company Varaha has secured a five-year CO2 credits deal with the Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC), one of the world’s largest agricultural processors. Under the deal, Varaha will deliver 6,000 tons of CDR on an annual basis for LDC through its improved agricultural land management project in Uttar Pradesh, India.Set on a mission of removing 1 billion tonnes of CO2e, Varaha partners with smallholder farmers across Asia, empowering them to adopt sustainable agriculture practices that also deliver carbon removal results. Besides regenerative agriculture, Varaha also specializes in afforestation, enhanced rock weathering, and biochar as carbon removal pathways. In 2025, the CDR company emerged among the top three providers of high-quality carbon removal credits active on the market, according to the ranking on the CDR.fyi suppliers leaderboard. For the deal with LDC, Varaha will work with nearly 430 farms from its own supply chain that will deliver the agreed amount of credits through a practice known as insetting. As part of the project, the participating farmers will rotate crops of rice and wheat on a combined territory of 2,000 acres in the northern Indian province of Uttar Pradesh. Conventionally, farmers in this region prepare for the wheat crop by burning the rice harvest’s leftover stalks and releasing CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. Switching to more environmentally friendly practices, the farmers united under Varaha’s project will use seeding machines to shred the stalks and return them to the soil while also sowing new seeds with minimal soil disturbance. Relevant: The Top 10 Carbon Removal Suppliers In Mid-2025Varaha will manage the implementation, soil sampling, and continuous comprehensive monitoring of this project, tracing the produced lower-carbon wheat from farm to warehouse.On its end, LDC will offer the lower-carbon wheat to its end customers, providing them with a product sourced through a sustainable production process. The carbon removal activity from this project will be third-party verified under Verra’s methodology for improved agricultural land management, v2.1. Read more: Patch And Varaha Partner On Multi-Million Dollar CDR Investments DealSubscribe to Our Weekly Newsletter Get the Latest News About the Carbon IndustryBy checking this box, you confirm that you have read and are agreeing to our terms of use regarding the storage of the data submitted through this form.