Carbon cell to be set up to help farmers earn carbon credits: Kerala Agriculture Minister

Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 7 (UNI) A Carbon Cell will be established under the Agriculture Department to enable farmers to earn carbon credits through climate-friendly farming practices, Agriculture Minister T. Siddique said here on Wednesday. The World Bank has agreed to the proposal, and joint efforts would be undertaken in the coming months to establish the cell, he said after a meeting with a World Bank mission that is in Kerala to review the implementation of the KERA project, being implemented with World Bank financial assistance. The Minister said the carbon credit mechanism should provide financial incentives for farmers to adopt climate-friendly…