Cooxupé producers exchange coffee for inputs and technologies

The use of coffee as an exchange currency when purchasing machinery, implements and agricultural inputs has become an alternative increasingly observed by cooperative producers of the Regional Coffee Growers Cooperative in Guaxupé during their negotiations with Cooxupé. This scenario should be repeated at the 23rd Femagri, a business fair that will receive more than 30 thousand visiting buyers, from March 20th to 22nd, in Guaxupé/MG.

The Femagri organization states that coffee growing families are increasingly paying attention to the exchange of coffee bags, as they find more security in this type of negotiation.

“Cooxupé members have been closely observing this type of negotiation, as this modality does not leave them exposed to variations in coffee and also allows them to limit their costs in machinery and inputs, technologies that are extremely important for achieving sustainability and greater productivity in crops” , explains the president of the cooperative, Carlos Augusto Rodrigues de Melo.

What the coffee grower will find at Femagri

In an area of ​​107 thousand square meters, the fair will bring together more than 120 exhibitors and more than 12 thousand products, encompassing technological innovations in machinery, inputs and agricultural implements for coffee growers with small to large coffee productions.

Among the technologies that should be sought by cooperative producers is the launch of a tractor that offers, among its differences, better operational efficiency and reduced fuel consumption. Another highlight is a self-propelled sprayer, whose function adequately and specifically applies agricultural pesticides to damaged targets affected by the pest in crops.

For those looking for solutions for precision agriculture, technologies such as agricultural GPS - essential for accessing more precise geographic data and for strategic guidance in agricultural operations - and the automatic pilot coupled to tractors, harvesters and other agricultural machines - allowing the vehicle to be automatically guided by a GPS, without operator interference – must be analyzed by coffee growers at Femagri.

Drones are also notable for offering coffee producers the possibility of defining areas of interest, surveying the topography of the land, planning for rainwater drainage, generating a vegetation health map, in addition to carrying out sampling. optimized soil management, strategic planting management, among other benefits.

“Precision agriculture seeks to monitor the process precisely, collecting and analyzing information through technologies that facilitate decision-making by rural producers, providing greater control over the entire production process and contributing to efficient, profitable and sustainable production” , points out Cooxupé Machinery Market supervisor, Douglas Ferreira.

Femagri is open to the public with free registration carried out at the event reception, from 08am until 18pm. The official opening of the fair takes place on March 20th, at 10 am, in front of Espaço Cooxupé. The address is: Avenida Vereador Nelson Elias, in the Japy neighborhood, in Guaxupé, South of Minas Gerais.