Hassan: The District Planters’ Association has come forward to implement a scheme for carbon credit facility to growers based on the trees grown in the coffee plantations.

Speaking at the press meet, Planters’ Association President K. N. Subramanya and Soil Testing Unit President Muralidhar S. Bakkaravalli said that the trees grown in coffee plantations are absorbing carbon dioxide and emitting a lot of oxygen. This is helping in controlling air pollution on a global scale, he said.

“Since coffee has a global marketplace, the planter’s association has taken the lead to provide carbon credit facility to coffee growers under the intervention of a London-based company called Carbonn Say. The coffee growers have to submit the filled-in application form by December 20 to the office of the District Planters’ Association along with a copy of the pahani,” he said.