Coffee sector plans AI-led mechanisation push with support from IIT Dharwad, IIT Roorkee
The Indian coffee industry is seeking to modernize through a collaborative AI-led mechanization push involving the Coffee Board of India and IITs in Dharwad and Roorkee. The initiative aims to address labor shortages and improve operational efficiency in coffee estates.
Why it matters
Integrating AI and advanced engineering into agriculture is critical for sustaining India's coffee production, which is heavily concentrated in Karnataka.
India’s coffee industry is exploring a collaborative initiative to develop artificial intelligence (AI)-based farm equipment, mechanisation technologies, and tools with the Coffee Board of India proposing a joint effort involving planters’ associations, growers’ bodies and Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in Dharwad and Roorkee.
Kurma Rao M., Chief Executive Officer and Secretary of the Coffee Board, called for closer coordination among the Board, the Karnataka Planters’ Association (KPA), the United Planters’ Association of Southern India (UPASI) and other industry stakeholders to accelerate technology development. He was speaking at the KPA’s annual conference in Chikmagalur on Monday.
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