Update Task API Limit Issue

I am running into issues with the API limit for update task in Zoho Projects.

In a typical Project, we have 120-130 Tasks and I would like a field change made to the Project to propagate down to all Tasks that belong to the Project. (In this case "Territory). I am running the below function upon field change of Project.Territory to update Task.Territory.

Is there any reasonable way to get around the 100x API usage limit for this function?

// Get all tasks for the specified project ID
taskDetails = zoho.projects.getRecords(portalId,projectId,"tasks",0,0,"xxxxxxxxxx");
tasksList = taskDetails.get("tasks");
// Create a map to specify the custom field update
customFieldsMap = Map();
customFieldsMap.put("UDF_CHAR82",territory);
// Create the main map and nest the custom fields map within "custom_fields"
updateTaskParameter = Map();
updateTaskParameter.put("custom_fields",customFieldsMap);
//only run code if Project.Territory is not null
if(territory != null)
{
// Loop through each task in taskDetails (Tasks belonging to projectId)
for each task in tasksList
{
// Access the ID of each task and Territory (UDF_CHAR82)
taskId = task.get("id");
taskTerr = task.get("UDF_CHAR82");
//Check if Task has subtasks
taskisParent = task.get("isparent");
// If Task has Subtasks get all Subtasks belonging to this Task
if(taskisParent == TRUE)
{
subTaskResponse = invokeurl
[
url :projectsAPIEndPoint + "/portal/" + portalId + "/projects/" + projectId + "/tasks/" + taskId + "/subtasks/"
type :GET
connection:"xxxxxxxxxx"
];
//For each Subtask belonging to this task update Territory if not already matching
for each subTask in subTaskResponse.get("tasks")
{
// Access the ID of each task and Territory (UDF_CHAR82)
subtaskId = subTask.get("id");
subtaskTerr = subTask.get("UDF_CHAR82");
if(subtaskTerr.toString() != territory.toString())
{
subtaskUpdate = zoho.projects.update(portalId,projectId,"Tasks",subtaskId,updateTaskParameter,"xxxxxxxxxx");
}
}
}
// Perform the update operation if Task.Territory differs from Project.Territory
if(taskTerr.toString() != territory.toString())
{
taskUpdate = zoho.projects.update(portalId,projectId,"Tasks",taskId,updateTaskParameter,"xxxxxxxxxx");
}
}
}
return taskUpdate;

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