A first-of-its-kind biochar project in Iloilo — turning rice-husk waste, once burned, into farmer income, jobs, and durable, verified carbon removal.
Secured site, contracted feedstock, and a clear path from one line to a 36,000 t/yr platform. Explore the opportunity and the data room.
Invest & Partner →Puro.earth CORC200+ credits with Carbonfuture MRV+ and full chain-of-custody — every batch tracked and third-party verified.
Carbon & MRV →Aligned with the Province of Iloilo's rice agenda — farmer income, TESDA training and measurable local impact.
Rice Resilience →El Niño-driven drought, rising temperatures and increasingly erratic rainfall are cutting rice yields across Iloilo and the wider Philippines — while the cost of imported inorganic fertiliser keeps climbing. Farming families bear the brunt, with women and children most exposed to the loss of income and nutrition. Most rice husk is still burned as waste, adding emissions instead of value.
Biochar tackles every stressor at once — cutting fertiliser dependence, holding water in the soil, lifting yields, and locking carbon away for centuries.
Less NPK needed — about US$160/ha saved for farmers.
Drought resilience; field capacity up 20 to 51% by soil type.
+15% adoption closes ~29% of the gap to the 6 t/ha target.
At full build — 7,200 per unit × six units; each a permanent 200+ yr removal (CORC200+).
Plus nitrous oxide (N₂O) down ~31% — powerful climate co-benefits.
Rice-husk biochar strengthens crops — disease & lodging resistance.
Phase 1 begins with one 6,000 t/yr line and ~20,000 t/yr feedstock sourced within 15 km; the full six-unit build sources rice husk & straw within 25 km. Every credit is a permanent 200+ year removal (CORC200+). Full-build figures are projections.
Rice-mill residue collected from 35 mills within 15 km.
→Continuous rotary-kiln, 450–600°C; syngas recycled for heat.
→Weighed, sampled and certified — the durable carbon product.
→Applied to soil — carbon locked 200+ years, yields lifted.
→A continuous rotary-kiln pyrolysis system — rice husk in, Platinum BioChar out, with syngas recycled for heat and no grid power required.
Illustrative rendering of the Mina process line.
Positioned in support of Governor Arthur “Toto” Defensor Jr.'s SERBISYO programme — the Province of Iloilo's drive to reach 6 t/ha, which explicitly calls for private-sector partners. Biochar is the one soil-health & residue-valorisation pathway that also earns verified carbon revenue.
The Department of Agriculture's institute pioneered continuous rice-husk carbonisation.
Replicated IRRI and peer-reviewed trials show rice-husk biochar lifting yields and locking carbon in the soil for centuries.
The 6-step biochar lifecycle:
“[Placeholder — a rice farmer on higher yields and a fair price for husk once burned as waste.]”
“[Placeholder — a rice-mill partner on turning residue into revenue and cleaner air.]”
“[Placeholder — a TESDA-trained worker on new local jobs and skills.]”
Countrymen. Kin. Fellow travellers. In our tradition, kababayan is the whole village coming together to lift a neighbour — when a family moves their home, everyone carries it together. That is the spirit of the programme: farmers, families and partners lifting one another — from Mina, for the Philippines.
“Kababayan” — an original oil painting; a wedding gift from Maribeth de Montaigne to her husband David on their wedding day, 35 years ago. · The programme is delivered with our independent non-profit partner, School Aid MTÜ.
Our independent non-profit partner, School Aid MTÜ, runs the Kababayan community programme — farmer training, school and child support, and women's empowerment across Iloilo — the socio-economic heart of the SERBISYO rice agenda, behind an ironclad charity/company wall.
Explore the impact →Year-1 target
Year-1 target
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Benteng Bigas aligned
How durability class and chain-of-custody underpin credible removal.
How soil-health gains support Iloilo's SERBISYO agenda.
Scaling to a 36,000 t/yr platform within three years.
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