Named "Jacto Next", the new area works as an integrated service provider that allows you to use connectivity and IoT to achieve more results on rural properties.
Jacto presents to the market "Jacto Next", a new business area of the company responsible for the commercialization and delivery of specialized services within the gate. Jacto Next's objective is to offer farmers integrated and complete solutions that enable Agriculture 4.0, simplifying the adoption of new technologies and helping to achieve high levels of performance, quality and sustainability within their business.
"Just like Industry 4.0, the fourth revolution in agriculture needs digitalization in the field to have greater agility, autonomy, connectivity and integration in production and management processes. In this scenario, we are increasingly asked to offer digital solutions to agricultural properties integrated and complete solutions that make this possible", explains Fernando Gonçalves, CEO of Jacto. "With the launch of the Jacto Next service area, we reinforce our purpose of serving farmers, with products, information and services. Modern agriculture calls for new tools that enable it to reach its full potential", he adds.
A year ago, Jacto launched its Digital Ecosystem which, through the Jacto Connect application, has made it possible to unite four important participants in the agricultural environment: the farmer, the business ecosystem, information systems and all the "things" present in the property .
In this context, the business ecosystem comprises resellers, partners and communities inside and outside the gate; information systems are platforms, apps, and other integrative solutions; and the "things" present inside the gate are machines, plots, sensors, crops, soil, drones, weather stations, etc.
Agriculture 4.0: agricultural properties with integrated and complete digital solutions for agility and autonomy in production and management processes.
Therefore, Jacto Connect was developed with the aim of promoting a space for the integration of these four elements of the agricultural environment, offering, free of charge or upon subscription, various services from Jacto and other market partners.
Now, with Jacto Next, the company takes a new leap forward in its service offering for Agriculture 4.0.
Jacto is offering services to the market that allow the complete digitalization of the farm, with solutions for internet signal coverage, instrumentation, connection of multi-brand machines, sensors, weather stations, drones, satellite images and software for monitoring and managing operations . The new area also offers a subscription service for GPS correction signal.
At the same time, other services are under development and will be available soon, such as specialized training, special operations with drones and autonomous vehicles, operational and agronomic consultancy, as well as predictive intelligence for better plant health, including management of pests, diseases and nutritional status .
"Jacto Next's mission is to be the specialist supplier of reliable end-to-end solutions, with its own and partner technology, in an integrated way, with high quality and, at the same time, in a simple and transparent way", says Felippe Antonelle Gonçalves, business manager at Jacto Next.
One of the highlights of the current portfolio of services present in Jacto Connect and marketed and delivered by Jacto Next, is EKOS, Jacto's software that allows you to integrate solutions for digitizing the field and visualizing information.
EKOS was developed to manage all agricultural operations present in the cereal, fiber, fruit and sugar-energy sector, with online multi-brand monitoring, improved operational efficiency and all the information in the palm of your hand for quick and accurate decision making . The software generates maps, controls work orders, generates efficiency and operational performance indicators and provides reports detailing work on a single screen.
"Through the EKOS software, the producer has complete and online visibility of the agricultural activities and operations carried out on the farm. He can monitor the progress of work and be notified in the event of machine stoppage, maximum operating speed, as well as receive several other alerts operational options that can be configured", adds Fellipe.
The transformations of the digital context in the field bring very specific needs so that Agriculture 4.0 can show its potential and possibilities.
Paying attention to this scenario, AMAGGI has been working to promote the appropriate environment for these new technologies for more than a decade, studying, contributing and developing partnerships with the use of new digital technologies. Since 2019, some of the group's farms have been using agriculture 4.0 services, connecting machines and managing all operations in detail with Jacto's service solutions.
"It is already part of AMAGGI's culture to work with partnerships in search of innovative solutions to challenges in the field", summarizes the company's head of Innovation, Leonardo Maggi.
Demand brought by digital transformation impacts the way of managing the business, which needs to be agile and assertive, and this agility represents a gain in agricultural operations.
According to Ricardo Moreira, Production Control Manager at AMAGGI, the demand brought by digital transformation impacts the way of managing the business, which needs to be agile and assertive, and this agility represents a gain in agricultural operations.
"All this evolution forced us to look at the issue of minimizing errors and decision-making time, and brought us a new perspective for evaluating the processes implemented in the field. Now, we have a real-time, systemic view of the behavior of our machines acting with operational, climatic and agronomic assumptions sent in advance through Service Orders. We understand that this will bring a greater gain in operational performance and an increase in our agricultural productivity. Assessments and insights allow us to mitigate errors and make the entire process more efficient. sustainable", explains Moreira
This is the context in which EKOS was developed: so that the technology provides the customer with information and insights that, without its use, would not be possible.
"Through telemetry data, we were able to reduce the overlapping area in a spraying operation by up to 80%. In this case, being a soybean and cotton producer, the pesticide savings reached R﹩120.000,00 per year per 1000 ha", adds Antonelle, from Jacto.
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