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Kelachandra Coffee partners with Deepflow Technologies to bring hyperlocal climate intelligence to Chikkamagaluru plantations
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Wednesday, 10 December, 2025, 16 : 00 PM [IST]
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Our Bureau, Bengaluru
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Kelachandra Coffee, one of India’s largest privately held coffee plantation companies, has entered into a strategic partnership with Deepflow Technologies, an agri-tech startup incubated at NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore. As part of the collaboration, Deepflow’s Augmented Weather Stations (A-WS) and the IndraWeather platform (powered by mistEO) will be deployed across Kelachandra’s 15 estates located in Chikkamagaluru and Wayanad. The move marks a major step toward building a data-driven, climate-resilient coffee-growing ecosystem in the Western Ghats.
The initiative began as a pilot at Kelachandra’s Chandrapore Estate and, after strong validation of the technology, is now being expanded across the entire Kumergode Cluster. The full-scale deployment will support climate-adaptive operations over Kelachandra’s 6,500 acres, helping mitigate microclimate risks, strengthen sustainability, and improve overall productivity.
Highlighting the environmental significance of the partnership, Rishina Kuruvilla, Head of CSR & Sustainability, Kelachandra Coffee, said, “Climate volatility is no longer a distant threat; it is a daily reality for coffee growers. By integrating Deepflow’s hyperlocal intelligence, we are moving from reacting to extreme weather to proactively adapting to it. This technology guides us in varietal selection and agroforestry planning, ensuring long-term sustainability of our estates.”
Deepflow’s A-WS units capture real-time climatic data—rainfall, humidity, wind speed, temperature—with nearly 95% accuracy. This data is processed by IndraWeather to deliver estate-level forecasts that inform critical decisions across irrigation, fertilization, pest management, and harvesting cycles.
Neleema Rana George, Head of Coffee Works & Technology, Kelachandra Coffee, said, “Precision is key to maintaining Kelachandra’s specialty coffee standards. With hyperlocal insights, irrigation and nutrient application are now scientifically scheduled rather than based on historical estimates. The ability to predict weather windows helps optimize harvesting and fermentation, improving cup quality while stabilizing yields.”
During the pilot, Deepflow’s systems consistently delivered 80–88% forecast accuracy, with rainfall tracking achieving up to 92% during extreme events. This high precision has helped reduce chemical dependency, cut operational costs, and improve labour scheduling.
Atthri Anand, Managing Director, Deepflow Technologies, said, “Working with a legacy grower like Kelachandra Coffee validates the power of deep-tech in agriculture. Our goal is to provide granular, estate-level weather intelligence that enables growers to navigate microclimate variability. The Western Ghats is a complex terrain, and achieving such high accuracy demonstrates that climate resilience can be scaled across the Indian coffee sector.”
The partnership also creates pathways for parametric insurance, as the robust dataset generated by A-WS can be used to trigger weather-indexed risk coverage, further strengthening financial resilience against climate extremes.
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