Bahia Farm Show wants to remain among the strongest and most consolidated fairs in Brazil

Countdown for Bahia to become the main stage for one of the sectors that continues to grow without borders, side by side with technology, to bring ever more productivity, profitability and sustainability to rural people. With less than two months to go, the Bahia Farm Show 2023 will build a gigantic infrastructure for five days in the middle of the savannah of Western Bahia, in Luís Eduardo Magalhães. The agricultural fair, one of the strongest and most consolidated in Brazil, closes the national agribusiness calendar, between the 6th and 10th of June. The event will bring together in one place, for the 17th time in its history, more than 410 exhibiting companies with demonstrations of the main technological innovations in agricultural machinery and equipment, seeds, pesticides and fertilizers, vehicles, aircraft, irrigation, software and information equipment in real time, among others.

Given the success of the last edition, which surprisingly reached the historic mark of R$ 7,9 billion in closed business volume, and attracting a visiting public of 101 thousand people, the next edition of the Bahia Farm Show comes with the expectation , once again, be a reference in organization and success. “Three months before the start of the fair, we already had 100% of our area sold, we increased the number of participating companies, and we are expanding the area of ​​the entire complex by 15%, to guarantee greater comfort and safety for exhibitors and visitors to have the best experience to close good deals, learn about the latest developments in the sector, or simply have a pleasant experience with families, friends and customers, by strolling between the stands and learning more about the technological world that surrounds our agribusiness in Bahia”, explains Odacil Ranzi, president of the Association of Farmers and Irrigators of Bahia (Aiba), the fair's organizing body.

For this edition, the space increased from 191 thousand to 215 thousand m2 with the offer of new covered stands and external areas for exhibitions, product launches and technology demonstrations. The event will host, in three large auditoriums, an extensive program of lectures, courses and workshops to ensure the exchange of information and technology between research institutes and companies together with rural producers, farm managers and employees, agronomists, researchers, students and professionals of the agricultural area. The Bahia Farm Show will also attract livestock farmers with beef and dairy cattle auctions, with animals of high quality and genetic standard, organized by the Bahia Livestock Association (Acrioeste). Increasingly diversified and honoring all scales of agricultural production, the fair has an expanded and prominent space for cooperatives and associations from all over Bahia to sell and demonstrate the production of family farming, such as honey, products derived from special meats, milk, corn, cassava, cocoa, savannah fruits, varieties of sweets and cookies, handicrafts, among others.

The fair will become even more international. With an eye on the promising space for business consolidation and prospecting for new customers, foreign companies are betting their chips on the Bahia Farm Show 2023, guaranteeing participation in the event. Canada, France, Argentina, Nigeria, United States, Japan, Ireland and China are some of the countries that will be represented at the event by companies linked to the agribusiness segment and that will bring in their luggage, in addition to products, services and technology, the prospect of investments and future prospects. By achieving this international projection, the fair goes beyond the limits of the complex and moves the economy not only of Luís Eduardo Magalhães and Western Bahia, but of all of Bahia. In the last edition, it is estimated that more than three thousand direct and indirect jobs were created before and during the official period, the impact of the event can be felt directly in the heating of the regional economy, with the occupation of the hotel network, land and air transport , bars and restaurants, in addition to hiring local suppliers to work within the fair in setting up stands, visual communication, telephony and internet, and service providers in the area of ​​food and general services.

Development agents – Part of the fair's grandeur is linked to the contribution of public and private financial agents who guarantee financing options and specific credit lines for the agricultural sector, attractive interest rates, as well as special payment conditions. So far, the participation of banks from Brazil, Bradesco, Desenbahia, Original, Nordeste, Santander, Sicredi and Sicoob, which are also sponsors of the event together with Senar/FAEB, WP Agro Empresarial and Prefeitura Municipal de Luís Eduardo Magalhães, has been confirmed. . “These financial agents are a strong link between rural producers and exhibiting companies that sell the best technologies, and which have been enabling record productivity growth in agricultural production in Bahia, and across the entire area covered by Matopiba, which also includes the states from Maranhão, Tocantins and Piauí”, reinforces the executive director of the Bahia Farm Show, Alan Malinski. As a vector of growth, the Bahia Farm Show is also concerned with social development, by implementing the Solidarity Ticket, reversing part of the proceeds from entry tickets to the fair to Hospital do Oeste, the largest urgent and emergency unit in Western Bahia.

Evolution - A comparison between the first edition of the Bahia Farm Show, in 2008, (considering that in editions prior to this year the event used a different name because it was a franchise), with the 2022 edition reflects the grandeur that the fair has achieved. The occupied area increased from 60 thousand to the current 215 thousand square meters. The number of 26 thousand visitors has already exceeded 101 thousand, in 2022, during the five days of the event. In 2008, the volume of closed deals was R$250 million, and in the 2022 edition it reached the historic mark of R$7,9 billion.