AvAg Congress closes with 3,2 visitors and R$120 million in business

Around 3,2 visitors and a volume of transactions that could reach 120 million reais, including closed deals and negotiations initiated in three days of programming. This was the outcome of the Brazilian Agricultural Aviation Congress (AvAg Congress). The 2023 edition of one of the largest aeroagricultural meetings in the world ended this Thursday afternoon (20), in Sertãozinho in the interior of São Paulo. This was the outcome of the Brazilian Agricultural Aviation Congress, which brought together businesspeople, pilots, entrepreneurs, suppliers, researchers and other professionals.

Gabriel Colle, executive director of the National Union of Agricultural Aviation Companies (Sindag, which organizes the event), highlights that the edition had an impressive balance of numbers. There were R$120 million in negotiations and around 3,2 thousand registered. “We had representatives from practically every state, as well as visitors and exhibitors from different countries, such as the United States, Canada, Argentina, Colombia and Bolivia. From the point of view of Sindag and Ibravag (Brazilian Institute of Agricultural Aviation, which supports the event), we had more than 60% of members present. Our associates are all over Brazil, so this number is very significant,” he says.

TRANSITION

The edition’s great legacy is a transition to the future. The works submitted and awarded at the Scientific Congress demonstrate this point of view. “Knowledge forms a strong foundation and provides good practices for the field. In this edition, we launched the Good Practices Manual, which highlights our vision for the future that is already happening”, says Colle.

The closing ceremony also saw the publication of the results of the Scientific Congress. The work that won the Honorable Mention as Highlight Innovation was “Fungicide applied by remotely piloted aircraft to control rust in coffee crops”, by Professor Edney Leandro Vitória.

Third place, which won R$1, was “Assessment of operational costs of agricultural planes, agricultural drones and land sprayers in the Brazilian context”, by Jonathan Andres Garcia Montaña, Edinalvo Rabaioli Camargo, Viviane Gonçalves Burkert and Eugênio Passos Schröder. “Quality of spraying using a remotely piloted aircraft in citrus crops”, by Thales Gomes dos Santos, João Guilherme Pereira Nunes and Prof. Edney Leandro da Vitória came in second place and won R$2. First place went to researchers João Paulo Arantes Rodrigues da Cunha, Artur Rodrigues Junqueira and Luana de Lima Lopes, who developed the work “Use of remotely piloted aircraft to apply phytosanitary products in coffee cultivation”.

The official closing of the event was made by the president of Sindag, Hoana Almeida Santos, who especially praised the technical and knowledge gains shared at the event this year, which, in addition to the 12 researches participating in the Scientific Congress, saw the launch of two technical manuals and good practices. The closing ceremony also included the participation of the Secretary of Economic Development of Sertãozinho, Henrique Gomes and the director of New Business at CSA – Centro de Serviços Aeronáuticos (one of the main sponsors of the event), Luciano Cruz.

In his speech, Hoana highlighted the work of the Sindag and Ibravag teams for the success of the event and its importance in showing society the level of security and technology in the sector. She did not announce the location of the next edition of the event, but she also did not rule out the AvAg Congress remaining in Sertãozinho (there have already been three editions in the city). Remembering that next year the Congress will cover Mercosur – according to Sindag's relay agreement with the aeroagricultural entities of Argentina and Uruguay.