Agricultural Aviation Scientific Congress opens registrations for academic works

Registration for academic research is now open to compete for the 2022 Agricultural Aviation Scientific Congress awards. Researchers (who can be students, teachers or specialists) from all over Brazil can submit their work until the end of May. As in last year's edition, research must be focused on at least one of the six themes: Economic viability of the plane, Economic viability of the drone, Application technology and drift reduction, Preventive maintenance, Improvement of processes linked to Agricultural Aviation and Innovation in Agricultural Aviation.

Furthermore, for those who need support, Sindag helps mediate with aeroagricultural companies the availability of aircraft for field trials. The prize also remains R$3 for first place, R$2 for second and R$1 for third, in addition to an Honorable Mention for the highlight in Innovation. The result will be announced at the Scientific Congress, which takes place within the program of the Brazilian Agricultural Aviation Congress, which will take place from July 19th to 21st, in Sertãozinho, São Paulo.

According to the executive secretary of Sindag, Gabriel Colle, the Scientific Congress was created in 2019 and its competition came in 2020, to encourage the production of research and increase the continuous improvement of the sector, also promoting its rapprochement with society. “At the same time, the focus of the initiative is to ensure that the knowledge generated does not just remain within the academic environment. That each researcher goes into the field and their research, as far as possible, stays in the field, contributing to the activity”, he summarizes.

Last year, works by students and professors from the federal universities of Santa Maria and Pelotas, in Rio Grande do Sul, as well as the federal universities of Uberlândia, in Minas Gerais, were awarded; University of Northern Paraná (Unopar) and the Federal University of Bahia, as well as studies by consultants who work in the market. In addition to academic and knowledge generation criteria, research is evaluated taking into account the feasibility of its immediate practical application by the aeroagricultural sector.

Work can be sent to email sindag@sindag.org.br . Other information, such as presentation standards, templates for presenting research and the exhibition of works that participated in the 2021 edition of the Scientific Congress can be found at the address https://sindag.org.br/projetos_sindag/congresso-cientifico .

AvAg Congress and fleet

The Brazilian Agricultural Aviation Congress (AvAg Congress) – whose program includes the Scientific Congress – will take place at the Zanini Events Center, in Sertãozinho. The event is one of the largest aeroagricultural meetings in the world, bringing together exhibitors of technologies, services and aircraft displays – this year with demonstrations of agricultural planes and drones. This is in addition to dozens of technical lectures and debates with sector experts and government authorities on security, sustainability, legislation, technological innovations and various other topics. To find out more, visit: https://congressoavag.org.br .

Remembering that Brazil has the second largest and one of the best aeroagricultural fleets in the world, with more than 2,4 aircraft. According to Sindag estimates, the sector grew by more than 4% in 2021. Around a third of the fleet of agricultural aircraft in the country is powered by biofuel (ethanol) and more than half of the planes flying in the sector are the Ipanema model, from the Brazilian Embraer.

On the other hand, the country is the second most important market on the planet for North American manufacturers of agricultural turboprop aircraft (larger and more powerful than piston models, the majority in the country): Air Tractor and Thrush Aircraft (which dominate the segment ). To top it off, this year also marks the 75th anniversary of Brazilian agricultural aviation. Segment that had its first flight on August 19, 1947, in the city of Pelotas in Rio Grande do Sul – 26 years after the first agricultural flight in the world, which took place on August 3, 1921, in Dayton, in the North American state of Ohio.