Arctic Carbon cultivates nitrogen‑fixing Azolla in water‑logged rice paddies and abandoned shrimp farms, harvests the biomass, and converts it with low‑oxygen pyrolysis into ultra‑low H:C biochar. The biochar is sold as a soil amendment that enhances fertility and water retention while permanently sequestering carbon, and each ton generates a verified carbon‑removal credit for farmers and corporate buyers.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Degraded aquaculture ponds and abandoned rice paddies suffer from poor soil health, low fertility, and limited carbon sequestration, hindering both agricultural productivity and climate mitigation efforts. Traditional remediation methods often require extensive land use, synthetic inputs, or costly infrastructure, making large‑scale restoration economically unattractive.
Solution
Arctic Carbon cultivates the fast‑growing, nitrogen‑fixing Azolla water fern in Thailand’s rice paddies and abandoned shrimp farms, leveraging the plant’s natural ability to thrive in water without competing for arable land. An automated harvest system collects the biomass, which is then processed in a low‑oxygen pyrolysis unit that converts the feedstock into high‑quality biochar with an ultra‑low H:C ratio (~0.1). The resulting biochar is sold as a soil amendment that improves structure, water retention, and microbial activity while locking carbon in the ground for centuries. Each ton of biochar generates a verified carbon removal credit, enabling farmers and corporate buyers to monetize the long‑term sequestration. The end‑to‑end platform integrates cultivation, processing, and carbon‑credit issuance, providing a scalable, regenerative solution that simultaneously restores degraded land and delivers measurable climate impact.
Target Audience
Primary customers are rice and aquaculture farmers seeking soil restoration solutions, and corporations or climate‑focused organizations that require verified carbon removal credits for sustainability reporting.
Features
- Fast‑growing Azolla strain that fixes atmospheric nitrogen, eliminating the need for synthetic fertilizers
- Water‑based cultivation in rice paddies and abandoned shrimp farms, avoiding competition with cropland
- Automated harvest equipment designed for high‑throughput biomass collection in wet environments
- Low‑oxygen, continuous‑flow pyrolysis reactor producing biochar with an H:C ratio of 0.1, ensuring carbon stability for 100–1,000 years
- Biochar formulation that enhances soil aeration, water retention, pH balance, and microbial diversity, reducing irrigation and fertilizer requirements
- Integrated carbon‑credit verification workflow compliant with international standards, delivering tradable removal credits per ton of biochar sold
- Modular, scalable process architecture allowing rapid expansion across heterogeneous pond networks
- Compatibility with existing rice farming practices, providing ancillary benefits such as methane emission reduction