Target geography across Rajshahi and Rangpur, designed for clustered smallholder implementation and scalable field MRV.
Project Story
Dawn over the paddies of Rajshahi
The first light is already warm when Rahim wades into his paddy, but this year something is different. Beside the bund, a simple perforated pipe rises from the mud — a field water tube. He bends down, looks inside, and smiles. The water has dropped below the safe line. Today is an irrigation day. Tomorrow may not be.
For generations, farmers here were taught that more water meant more rice. But continuously flooded fields are perfect factories for methane — a greenhouse gas more than 80 times more potent than CO₂ over two decades. Across Rajshahi and Rangpur Divisions, tens of thousands of hectares of paddies have silently emitted it every single day of every growing season.
"We flooded our fields for a hundred years. Then we learned the water was the problem — and that we could farm better with less of it."
The Green Delta project changes the equation. Through Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD), farmers let fields dry to 15 cm below the surface before re-irrigating. The soil breathes, methane microbes starve, and peer-reviewed research by the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute shows methane falling by 37% on average — while irrigation water use drops by 30–40%. Paired with SRI practices, yields hold or improve.
Under an Article 6 Government-to-Government framework, every tonne of avoided methane becomes a verifiable carbon credit — with revenue flowing back to farmers, from $12+ per hectare. By 2036, the target is 1.5 million tonnes of CO₂ — a climate lever pulled field by field, farmer by farmer.