Lithos Carbon rocks agricultural carbon capture

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Lithos - the Greek word for stone - uses proprietary software to custom-deploy the basalt based on variables such as soil chemistry and crop nutrition / Credit: Lithos Carbon
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Lithos - the Greek word for stone - uses proprietary software to custom-deploy the basalt based on variables such as soil chemistry and crop nutrition / Credit: Lithos Carbon

Meet the entrepreneur helping farmers capture carbon and increase crop yields - with rocks

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