--- title: Saudi Aramco backs India’s Mitti Labs to make Asia’s... description: Mitti Labs, a climate-tech startup, has raised $9.5 million in a Series A round led by Aramco Ventures to expand its AI-powered platform for sustainable rice... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/saudi-aramco-backs-india-s-mitti-labs-to-make-asia-s-rice-farming-more-water-resilient-crkyipote twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Saudi Aramco backs India’s Mitti Labs to make Asia’s rice farming more water-resilient | daily.dev og:description: Mitti Labs, a climate-tech startup, has raised $9.5 million in a Series A round led by Aramco Ventures to expand its AI-powered platform for sustainable rice... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/saudi-aramco-backs-india-s-mitti-labs-to-make-asia-s-rice-farming-more-water-resilient-crkyipote og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/CrkyIPOTE.png og:image:alt: Saudi Aramco backs India’s Mitti Labs to make Asia’s rice farming more water-resilient og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Saudi Aramco backs India’s Mitti Labs to make Asia’s rice farming more water-resilient **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Mitti Labs, a climate-tech startup, has raised $9.5 million in a Series A round led by Aramco Ventures to expand its AI-powered platform for sustainable rice farming across Asia. The platform combines synthetic aperture radar satellite imagery with proprietary field datasets to create digital twins of smallholder rice fields, enabling remote monitoring of crop conditions, water use, and methane emissions. Farmers adopting the startup's alternate irrigation practices reportedly reduce water use by ~40% and methane emissions by over 50% without yield loss, while earning additional income through carbon credits. Having grown from 8,000 to over 100,000 farmers in one year across India, Mitti Labs plans to enter the Philippines and Indonesia, targeting millions of smallholder farmers by 2030. Revenue comes from carbon credit sales and its GeoAI data platform, with customers including Cool Effect, Ebro Foods, and Syngenta. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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