City-headquartered Kelachandra Coffee, a coffee plantation holding, has entered into a strategic partnership with Deepflow Technologies, an agri-tech startup incubated at NSRCEL, IIM-Bangalore, to deploy data-driven climate intelligence on its plantations in Chikmagaluru and Wayanad aimed at enhancing crop resilience, productivity, and sustainable coffee cultivation.
Through this collaboration, Augmented Weather Stations (A-WS) and IndraWeather (powered by mistEO) will be deployed across Kelachandra’s 15 estates in the Western Ghats of Chikkamagaluru and Wayanad, installing a data-driven, climate-resilient coffee cultivation ecosystem across Kelachandra’s 6,500-acre network of estates, the firm said.
Deepflow’s Augmented Weather Stations would capture real-time plantation environment data with approximately 95% accuracy and data will be processed to provide hyperlocal forecasts that would help optimise critical farm operations, said Rishina Kuruvilla, Head of CSR & Sustainability at Kelachandra Coffee.
“Climate volatility is no longer a distant threat, it is a daily reality for coffee growers. This technology enables us to make informed decisions on varietal selection and agroforestry, ensuring our estates remain productive and sustainable for decades to come,” she added.
According to Atthri Anand, managing director, Deepflow Technologies, the Augmented Weather Station would provide granular, estate-level data to empower growers to navigate microclimate variability.
The climate intelligence project was initially piloted at Kelechandra’s Chandrapore Estate in Chikmagalur and now in the process of replicating it in the entire Kumergode cluster in Mudigere.
Published – December 20, 2025 01:17 am IST
