Guwahati, Sept. 3 -- Tea Board of India has joined hands with the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and NIT Rourkela to develop an AI-powered system for monitoring tea plantations, marking a major push to bring space technology and advanced analytics into India's tea sector.

A tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on August 27, for the three-year research and development project CHAAYANKAN: Comprehensive AI-based Geospatial Data Analytics for Tea Plantation Monitoring.

The project, scheduled to run from April 2026 to March 2029, will cover major tea-growing regions of the country.

At the heart of the initiative is the use of satellite and UAV-based hyperspectral and...