Frequently asked questions
Clear answers about TANIT, regenerative transition, intercropping, field verification, and how farmers or cooperatives can participate.
About Us
Who is TANIT?
TANIT is a regenerative agriculture and data platform that helps farmer groups design, manage, and verify more resilient production systems. We combine nature-based solutions, field data, and technical support so farms can improve ecological performance and access stronger market opportunities.
What does TANIT do for farmers?
TANIT helps farmers move toward regenerative production through planting guidance, intercropping design, field monitoring, and verification. The goal is to improve farm resilience, reduce dependency on synthetic inputs over time, and create trusted data that buyers and partners can use.
Where does TANIT work?
TANIT focuses primarily on producer networks and farming communities in Latin America. The platform is designed to support different crops and regions, with local field knowledge and technical support adapted to each context.
Who is behind TANIT?
TANIT brings together data scientists, communication specialists, soil scientists, agronomists, and field technicians. The team works remotely across countries, with in-person technical support focused primarily in Latin America.
How TANIT works
How does TANIT help smallholder farmers transition to regenerative farming?
TANIT starts by understanding the farm's watering process, cash crop, soil, microclimate, and long-term production and market goals. From there, we help design a transition pathway using advanced AI-powered intercropping, field monitoring, and verification so farmers can improve their production system step by step.
What is intercropping?
Intercropping means growing different plants together in a planned way so they support each other. Some plants can improve soil cover, attract pollinators, support pest resilience, fix nitrogen, decrease fungal attack and/or increase water retention all the while creating additional income as secondary crops. TANIT focuses mostly on making major tropical and subtropical perennial crops more resilient and productive, but it can also support non-food cash crops such as tea and cotton with its intercropping design process.
How does TANIT decide what should be planted?
TANIT uses field data, ecological knowledge, crop requirements, and market needs to design planting systems. The aim is to choose companion plants that support the main crop while improving soil health, biodiversity, water use, and long-term productivity.
Can regenerative farming reduce input costs?
Yes, over time regenerative practices can reduce dependency on synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and inefficient water use. Results vary by crop and site, but better soil cover, biodiversity, and ecosystem design can help lower daily operating pressure for farmers.
Does TANIT allow pesticides and synthetic fertilizers?
TANIT supports farmers through a transition process rather than expecting everything to change overnight. The goal is to reduce synthetic inputs over time as the farm becomes more biologically resilient and less dependent on external inputs.
Working with TANIT
How can a farmer or cooperative participate?
As part of a six-stage process, clusters or cooperatives of 50 or more farmers begin their journey by informing TANIT about their location, cash crop, farm structure, and current challenges such as pests. TANIT collates this for sponsors such as NGOs, downstream buyers or community sponsors like energy companies as part of commencing a transition. We begin soil assessment and the real work of transition once funding is secured.
Do farmers need to pay upfront?
In many TANIT programs, upfront transition costs are supported through partners, sponsors, exporters, or buyers. The model is designed so farmers can participate without carrying the full financial burden of technical design, data systems, and verification alone.
How does the Regenerative Reward work?
The Regenerative Reward is additional value paid downstream for verified regenerative production data and compliance-ready sourcing. TANIT's model uses this value to support farmer payments, transition costs, and the evidence buyers need to trust the production system and meet market or regulatory expectations linked to SDG reporting. In this way, TANIT acts as a clearing house for the data fee, with payouts increasing as farmers progress from conventional monocultures to fully regenerative systems.
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