Impact measured, method attached.

Residue that was burnt because clearing it cost money now carries a price at the gate — and the fertiliser made from it comes back priced to be bought, not donated. That is the whole design: the supplier and the customer are the same household, which means the business cannot succeed while the catchment gets poorer. Procurement runs through farmer producer organisations and cooperatives where they exist, so the aggregation margin stays local rather than going to an intermediary.

India imports close to half the natural gas it consumes. Every kilogram of BioCNG produced in a district and dispensed in that district is a kilogram that did not arrive by tanker, and the energy security argument is as strong as the emissions one. Gas is sold under a contracted offtake framework with a mandated blending obligation behind it, so the demand is not speculative — the constraint on this sector is supply, and always has been.

A plant needs collection crews, drivers, weighbridge and yard staff, operators, laboratory technicians and maintenance fitters — most of them permanent, most of them local, and none of them requiring migration to a city. The collection network employs more people than the plant does, and it employs them in the villages the residue comes from. We report headcount, not "jobs supported", because the second number can be made to say anything.

Soil organic carbon across much of the world's cropland has fallen below the level at which soil holds water through a dry spell — which is the difference between a bad month and a failed season. Digestate returns carbon and nutrients to the same fields the residue came from. We test what we sell for nutrient content and organic carbon, and the test travels with the product rather than sitting in a drawer.

Organic farming in India is mostly constrained by input cost and input availability, not by willingness. A plant producing thousands of tonnes of tested organic fertiliser a year inside a single district changes the local price of that input. The food grown on it is the last link in the chain and the one furthest from our control — but the input is where the constraint actually binds, and that is the link we can move.

"Lives touched" is the least trustworthy number in impact reporting, because it is usually a population figure multiplied by proximity. We will report households in a direct commercial relationship with a plant — selling residue to it, buying fertiliser from it, or employed by it — counted from records, and we will report the three categories separately so nobody has to take the total on trust.

BioCNG earns its emissions case twice — methane captured that would otherwise have escaped from an open field or a landfill, plus fossil gas displaced at the pump. Both are countable, and both are stated separately here rather than combined into one flattering figure. The stubble not burnt also removes a seasonal air quality load that is real but which we do not attempt to convert into a tonnage.

Hold us to the ratio.

First-cycle reporting publishes from the research plant onward. If a number moves the wrong way, it will still be here.