Tech tools: Enhancing Tea Without Reducing Quality

January 15, 2020

Here are proven tools with widening applications. Main barriers are financing, farmer education and management skills. Drones A flying farmhand. So accurately focuses spraying that it cuts water use by 30-50% and chemicals by 90%. Planting costs decreased by as much as 90% and weeding time spe

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Peter Keen

Peter has been a senior professor at leading business and technology universities across the world, including Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and Oxford. He is the author of over forty books and a noted international consultant and public speaker. Tea writing and education are his avocation, with a focus on helping tea lovers find the ones that fit their personal tastes at best value. He has a strong interest in the offbeat stories and social and cultural aspects of tea history. His latest book is Tea Tips.

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2 Comments

Greg Goodmacher
on January 15, 2020 at 5:05 am •Reply

Hi, I wonder about the information regarding drones. I watched one spraying pesticide on a field, and I saw the pesticide drifting in the breeze. It seemed like a tremendous waste of pesticide plus an environmental hazard for the creatures living on the edge of the targeted area. Another time, I was riding my bicycle to work when I felt moisture on my face. It was a pesticide that a drone was spraying in a field that was quite a distance from me. Maybe drones can accurately deliver pesticides in controlled conditions, but much depends on weather conditions and human control. Lots of inexperienced users will make mistakes.
peter
on January 15, 2020 at 12:40 pm •Reply

Sensibly used, drones entirely avoid spraying and deliver a minimal and targeted jet right to the root – precision ag