Boomitra says Verra registered its Kenyan croplands soil carbon project, covering nearly 1,000 smallholders on 44,673 acres

May 2025 — Boomitra said on May 8, 2025 that Verra had registered its East Africa Carbon Farming Project, a soil carbon project covering nearly 1,000 smallholder farmers on 44,673 acres in Kenya. Here's what happened, what it cost, and what went wrong.

Cost and outcome (as of May 8, 2025)

Outcome: Verra registration, Boomitra's first for a croplands project and its first in Africa, the company says. (Boomitra, May 8, 2025)
Cost: no project cost, credit price or farmer payment disclosed.
Estimate: about 88,294 tonnes of CO₂ removed a year, and over 1.7 million tonnes over the project's lifetime, Boomitra estimates. (Boomitra, May 8, 2025)
Status: registered; no credits issued as of the release.

The project

Boomitra says the project spans counties across western and central Kenya, including Bungoma, Kakamega and Kericho. Farmers grow staples such as maize, beans and sorghum, plus bananas and horticultural vegetables. (Boomitra, May 8, 2025)

Farmers are trained in regenerative practices such as cover cropping, residue management, organic inputs and reduced tillage, which Boomitra says improve both soil carbon and crop productivity. (Boomitra, May 8, 2025)

It works with local partners Yara East Africa, the Farm to Market Alliance with the Cereal Growers Association, and the Kenya Organic Agriculture Network, which handle farmer outreach, training and field work. Boomitra says this makes its tools accessible to farmers managing just one acre. (Boomitra, May 8, 2025)

How it's measured

Boomitra says its monitoring system uses remote sensing and machine learning to quantify soil carbon, "drastically reducing the need for expensive physical sampling," and calls the system Verra-approved. (Boomitra, May 8, 2025)

It argues that cheaper monitoring means more revenue reaches farmers, but gives no revenue share for this project. (Boomitra, May 8, 2025)

"With Verra project registrations now in both grasslands and croplands, our technology has proven itself across land types and continents," CEO Aadith Moorthy said. (Boomitra, May 8, 2025) Boomitra says it's the first company with Verra-registered soil carbon projects in both. (Boomitra, May 8, 2025)

Where Boomitra's other projects stood

The Kenya registration followed Verra's February 2025 registration of Boomitra's northern Mexico grassland project, and the first issuance of 47,311 credits from its URVARA project in India under the separate Social Carbon standard. (Boomitra, May 8, 2025, Boomitra, Apr. 24, 2025)

The Mexico project went on to receive Verra approval for 3.03 million credits in February 2026, Verra said, which Verra said would be the first VM0042 issuance in North America once fully issued. (Verra, Feb. 4, 2026) Going by those two dates, that project took about a year from registration to approved credits. (Boomitra, Feb. 18, 2025, Verra, Feb. 4, 2026)

When Verra registered the Mexico project, Boomitra said credit issuance would follow completion of a verification audit. (Boomitra, Feb. 18, 2025) Verra said in 2026 that more than 200 other projects using its VM0042 soil methodology were in various stages of development, and that version 2.2 of the methodology had been approved under the Integrity Council's Core Carbon Principles. (Verra, Feb. 4, 2026)

What went wrong

Registration isn't credits. Registration approves the project design; issuance follows a separate verification audit, as Boomitra itself noted for its Mexico project. (Boomitra, Feb. 18, 2025) None had been issued for Kenya at the time of the release.
Estimates, not results. The 88,294 tonnes a year and 1.7 million tonnes lifetime are Boomitra's projections. (Boomitra, May 8, 2025)
Not checked on the registry. Verra's registry page didn't load in readable form from our network, so we couldn't confirm the project ID or status there.
No money figures. The release gives no cost, price, or payment to farmers.
What we don't know yet: when the first verification is due, and how many of the nearly 1,000 farmers will be paid, and how much.

Our follow-up question for Boomitra

When will the Kenya project's first verification happen, and what share of revenue will the farmers receive?

Sources

Boomitra, “Boomitra Secures Verra Registration for Its First Soil Carbon Project,” Feb. 18, 2025. boomitra.com
Boomitra, “Boomitra's East Africa Carbon Farming Project Earns Verra Registration; Expanding Global Soil Carbon Portfolio,” May 8, 2025. boomitra.com
Boomitra and Social Carbon Foundation, “Boomitra and Social Carbon Announce Landmark Soil Carbon Credit Issuance from Smallholder Farmers in India,” Apr. 24, 2025. boomitra.com
Verra, “Verra Approves Three Million Credits from Mexico Grasslands Project,” Feb. 4, 2026. verra.org

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