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Lipton Teas and Infusions is one of the world鈥檚 largest providers of tea with tea plantations in Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda. This partnership鈥檚 ambition is to use digital and genetic technologies to develop a regenerative tea production system with better climate resilience and with lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. We aim to develop drone imagery and analysis for tea canopies (work-package 1), and use it to enhance the use of digital agriculture for improved crop management (work-package 2), and clone selection and high-throughput canopy phenotyping for transpiration and N status (work-package 3).

Impact and findings

The partnership builds on long-term research carried out by 裸聊直播 with Unilever (now Lipton) tea estates in East Africa since the 1980s. During the last ten years, we have developed a digital platform for tea crop management called “Internet of Tea^TM” or “IoTea^TM” that incorporates a model of tea growth and development called “CUPPA-Tea”. We are now working together to understand the fundamental processes in the soil that influence greenhouse gas emissions, and using advanced genomic technologies to accelerate the tea breeding process.