Research results are presented at agricultural aviation congress

Researcher Paulo Estevão Cruvinel, from Embrapa Instrumentação (São Carlos, SP), represents the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation in the Congress of the National Union of Agricultural Aviation Companies (Sindag), which started on Tuesday (30) and runs until Thursday (1), in Sertãozinho (SP). 

This Wednesday (31) he will give a lecture on “The results for aerial application strategies in pest control”, when he addresses the contributions of the first phase of the REDAGRO Network, between 2013 and 2017. The largest research ever carried out in the country on technologies aeroagriculture included studies on soybean, rice and sugarcane crops in the South, Southeast and Center-West.

The project involved six Embrapa research centers, ten universities and two technology companies, in addition to the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). 

The event, in the Zanini Events Center pavilion, brings together more than three thousand participants from ten countries and 120 exhibitors; It is the largest aeroagricultural meeting in the country and one of the largest events in the world in the sector, especially for aircraft and embedded technology industries, as well as equipment and service suppliers.

Last Friday (26), the president of Sindag, Thiago Magalhães Silva, was at Embrapa Instrumentação to discuss the proposal for the new phase of the REDAGRO Network, responding to a demand made 15 days earlier to Embrapa's Executive Board. The work will involve seven Units from three regions, in addition to other public institutions and the private sector.

“With the experience accumulated in the first phase, we are proposing a three-year project, which should be part of a broader partnership program between Embrapa and Sindag. The aim is to include adding new scientific knowledge such as, for example, nanotechnology for the development of adjuvants and tracers, as well as involving international actors to adapt sector technologies to tropical conditions”, details Paulo Cruvinel.

“Firstly, we were surprised by Embrapa's efficiency in having promptly approached us for the meeting, to present a new project, a new work structure. Agricultural aviation needs respected entities to prove its efficiency”, declared the new president of Sindag, recently sworn in for a term until 2021.