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City-headquartered Kelachandra Coffee, a java plantation holding, has entered into a strategical concern with Deepflow Technologies, an agri-tech startup incubated astatine NSRCEL, IIM-Bangalore, to deploy data-driven clime quality connected its plantations successful Chikmagaluru and Wayanad aimed astatine enhancing harvest resilience, productivity, and sustainable java cultivation.
Through this collaboration, Augmented Weather Stations (A-WS) and IndraWeather (powered by mistEO) volition beryllium deployed crossed Kelachandra’s 15 estates successful the Western Ghats of Chikkamagaluru and Wayanad, installing a data-driven, climate-resilient java cultivation ecosystem crossed Kelachandra’s 6,500-acre web of estates, the steadfast said.
Deepflow’s Augmented Weather Stations would seizure real-time plantation situation information with astir 95% accuracy and information volition beryllium processed to supply hyperlocal forecasts that would assistance optimise captious workplace operations, said Rishina Kuruvilla, Head of CSR & Sustainability astatine Kelachandra Coffee.
“Climate volatility is nary longer a distant threat, it is simply a regular world for java growers. This exertion enables america to marque informed decisions connected varietal enactment and agroforestry, ensuring our estates stay productive and sustainable for decades to come,” she added.
According to Atthri Anand, managing director, Deepflow Technologies, the Augmented Weather Station would supply granular, estate-level information to empower growers to navigate microclimate variability.
The clime quality task was initially piloted astatine Kelechandra’s Chandrapore Estate successful Chikmagalur and present successful the process of replicating it successful the full Kumergode clump successful Mudigere.
