Paddy cultivation contributes around 9-13% of the global GHGs. Rice is mostly grown in flooded fields – water blocks oxygen from penetrating the soil, creating anaerobic conditions in which methane-emitting bacteria can grow.

Methane and nitrous oxide are the dominant GHG emissions. Methane is a short-lived climate pollutant with an atmospheric lifetime of roughly a decade, is a potent greenhouse gas 10X more powerful than carbon dioxide at warming the atmosphere. In addition to its climate impacts, methane poses acute and chronic hazards to human health.

Sri Lanka’s Paddy production is approximately 5,120,924 metric tones per annum. The project intends to implement methane reduction methods by
several mitigation methods given below to use methane credits to support paddy farming communities.

• Implement Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) system
• A single drawdown of water during the mid-season
• Dry seeding instead and various “aerobic rice” systems, in which rice is grown in well-drained soil.