Aerial demonstrations and debates marked the aeroagricultural congress

The Brazilian Agricultural Aviation Congress, which runs until Thursday (1st) in Sertãozinho (SP), has already decided that it will stay in the city next year, when it will have its Latin American edition. The announcement took place on Tuesday night (30), during the official opening ceremony of the program, which had actually already started in the morning – bringing together more than 140 exhibitors and three auditoriums where 42 lectures and debates took place over the three days. of programming. Held by the National Union of Agricultural Aviation Companies (Sindag), the event brings together the entire chain of suppliers and technology developers, as well as aircraft manufacturers, from a sector where Brazil is the second largest market in the world, second only to the United States. United.

“For us it is a source of pride, even more so knowing that the congress was itinerant and Sindag chose to stay in Sertãozinho in 2020,” celebrates Mayor Zezinho Gimenez (PSDB). “This proves the good structure of the city, which already hosts the largest in the world in the sugar-energy sector (Fenasucro & Agrocana, which starts on the 20th, in the same pavilion), in addition to having a good hotel structure and strong commerce and industry”, he adds. . In his fourth term, Gimenez says he is surprised by the size of the aeroagricultural sector, and excited by the event's horizon, “in the wake of an expected production of 20% in agriculture. It will undoubtedly have a very strong social benefit for the city.”

The Congress still continues this Thursday, from 9 am to 18 pm, at the Zanini Events Center. The program will also include aerial firefighting demonstrations, as well as displays with five agricultural planes, a kids space, startup stands, embedded technology companies from different countries and discussions with authorities, politicians, researchers, businesspeople and technicians.

Consistency, records and news

For the president of Sindag, Thiago Magalhães, this year's edition is being remarkable for the event and for the aeroagricultural sector itself. “We are having an event that not only has a record attendance, stands at the technology and equipment exhibition and lectures, but also a very consistent edition, with several new features”, he comments, referring, for example, to the Scientific, Political and of Technologies.

The Brazilian aero-agricultural fleet grew 3,74% in 2018, reaching 2.194 aircraft, according to a study with Anac's Brazilian Aeronautical Registry (RAB). The aerial tool is the only one for handling crops with its own (and extensive) regulations and the one that requires the most training from its operators, in addition to the high technology on board. This is despite the same products applied by planes being also used by knapsack sprayers and tractors and with the same precautions required for safety.

Medal

On Tuesday there was also the Aviation Dinner, with tribute to those awarded the Agricultural Aviation Merit medal. This year, the honorees were professor, researcher and consultant Wellington Pereira Alencar de Carvalho, aviator lieutenant colonel Marialdo Rodrigues Moreira (in memoriam) and former president of Sindag Euclides de Carli (in memoriam). The tribute is paid every year to personalities who contributed to the development of agricultural aviation in Brazil. The nomination of names is made by aeroagricultural entrepreneurs and ratified by a commission involving the Sindag board.