Andhra Pradesh recorded a 24% rainfall deficit in the 2025 kharif season. For the smallholder farmers who depend on timely rains for planting and irrigation, that volatility translates directly into crop losses, income instability, and rising food insecurity. This project was built in direct response.

Through practices including Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD), Direct Seeded Rice (DSR), and zero tillage maize, participating farmers transition to low-input, climate-smart agriculture reducing water usage by up to 30%, lowering input costs, improving soil health, and accessing new income streams through carbon markets.

The challenge was not technical. It was structural. Interventions like these rarely fit existing funding models,  too complex for CSR frameworks, too early for commercial capital. Equilibrium designed a financing architecture built specifically for that gap.