Tag: agritech

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08/24/2022

Brazilian Farmers develop agricultural startups with government incentives

Brazilians who work with innovation in agribusiness will soon benefit from an incentives program. The AgroHub Brazil project comes into operation in September to promote and support the creation and development of startups. The project, from the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Food Supply (MAPA), also encourages initiatives to bring innovative companies closer to public […]

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12/08/2021

New app identifies and assesses cattle health by facial recognition

Researchers from the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), Dairy Cattle, and the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) recently announced the creation of an app that identifies cattle by face and is also able to assess their health status based on the database information collected by users. The software, called Happy Cow ID, uses […]

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10/06/2021

Brazilian AgTechs attract interest from around the world

Brazil has seen a boom of AgTechs — startups dedicated to finding technological solutions to agribusiness — in the past three years. In 2020, the country registered more than one new AgTech per day, according to a survey carried out by Radar AgTech, an initiative from the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), in partnership with […]