Farmbox is a software tool focused on agronomic issues such as plagues, diseases and weeds and already covers around 850,000 hectares of different states in Brazil.
smartphones cameras. Due to this, producers avoid wastage of agrichemicals, protecting the environment and workers. “Farmers in- vests millions in big equipment and, some- times, a small piece puts everything on the loose. Our device tests each nozzle in just a few seconds and indicates if there is any prob- lem regarding droplet size, pressure and/or aspersion. The focus is making simple solu- tions for real problems”, adds Edson Minatel, partner of Spray X. Smart Grain is a system for grain classifying that substitutes human work. By AI and Ma- chine Learning, it uses pictures to analyse samples of grains in a few seconds, assuring the quality of soy bean for traders. This solu- tion won Agrihub Cuiabá Hackathon in 2017 and was as of an Alpha Farms producer´s de- mand. “Just our state alone loses US$ 830 mil- lion per year by human error or lack of faith in grain classification. Initially, we tried grains colours analysing, but we needed to include other features. Now we have an effective soft- ware that will be launched very soon to help
producers where they are”, finishes Vitoriano Martin Jr., founder of Smart Grain. Nonethe- less, according to Famato research, still 80% of 452 producers evaluate price (47%) and
Alpha Farms in Brazil largest agricultural exporter. Just 40 years
According to the FAO, Brazil is currently the 3rd
ago however, the country was a food import- er in spite of 850 million of hectares, abun- dant water reserves and a lot of sunshine all over the year. This epic transformation has a simple reason: innovation. Tropical agricul- ture technologies respond for this fast devel- opment, specially, at the biome called Cerra- do (around 200 million hectares in the centre of the country). This is exactly the scenario of “Fazendas Alfa” (Alpha Farms), where a new technological revolution focused on digital farming is going on. Alpha Farms are a group of 60 properties (180,000 hectares) that have agreed on testing and applying new solu-
availability (41%) as the main hurdles for adopting new solutions in Mato Grosso. On the other hand, just 4% of them do not see significant advantages on that.
Just Mato Grosso state, in Brazil, responds for 10% of the world´s soy bean production.
tions for big scale crops in Mato Grosso State, a really aimed region for agriculture and live- stock. They produce corn, soy, cotton, sugar cane, bean, rice, wheat, fruit, and coffee, amongst others.
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