Workshop in Kenya Suggests Improvement in Technology May Benefit Tea Industry
Tea scientist Surajit Ghose is keen to apply technology to developing tea industries in order to produce better yields and, subsequently, higher earnings. Originally working in India, Ghose has recently expanded his reach to Kenya’s tea industry.
Ghose and colleagues have helped India’s tea industry undergo serious changes in the last ten years with technology and efficiency on the forefront of the agenda. Largely sponsored by the Tea Board of India, these steps include research designed to automate quality control instead of relying on human senses. Such research includes the development of an electronic nose and vision instrument currently in the trial stage.
Thanks the help of Ghose, similar initiatives are now being introduced in Kenya. Currently, the majority of production and quality control falls on the citizens’ personal senses. The results are often lackluster and inconsistent. In light of this, Ghose recently held a two-day educational workshop to teach Kenyans how technology can be adopted to improve the tea industry and how such changes would lead to economic improvements for stakeholders in the tea industry.
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