<h1>Agricultural carbon credits in India risk benefiting intermediaries unless transparency and fair revenue-sharing protect farmers.</h1> Agricultural carbon credits monetise practices that sequester soil and biomass carbon, offering mitigation potential and farmer income only if supported by robust measurement and verification, fair revenue-sharing, aggregation models, and policy measures; concentrated market control by large aggregators-including firms with input-intensive histories-creates risks of information asymmetry, value capture by intermediaries, and greenwashing, requiring transparency, independent verification, and safeguards to ensure benefits reach farmers and address drivers of soil degradation.