UbyAgro signs partnership with Uniube for research

The UbyAgro Group announced a partnership with the Agro University of Uniube, in Uberaba (MG), expanding its strategy of innovation and promotion of research, which guides the principles and DNA of the holding company throughout its four-decade trajectory.

Called the UbyAgro Research Station, the project aims to develop plant nutrition products and bioinputs, offering producers sustainable solutions that aim to achieve greater productivity and profitability. With the direct participation of Ubyfol and Vitales, companies that are part of the holding company, the initiative will also train agricultural engineering students who will participate in the project to work in the agribusiness chain. 

Among other investments that will be made, the UbyAgro Group will donate agricultural equipment and machinery valued at more than R$1,7 million to the institutions, in addition to funding 12 scholarships for interns and other services.

“We will also invest around R$1,5 million, plus the annual production costs in both projects”, highlights Matheus Ferreira (in the photo), senior researcher at Grupo UbyAgro.

With this, the Group also seeks to strengthen its support for research with universities in Minas Gerais, whose cooperation model began in 2019 with Faculdades Associadas de Uberaba. “Until the middle of this year, Ubyfol had 6 hectares at Fazu for the development of relevant innovations to meet the demands of the Brazilian agricultural sector. From this first successful partnership with an educational institution, we doubled the size of this area, increasing it to 12 hectares, in addition to expanding this cooperation model with Uniube, which will provide a new area of ​​9 hectares, a greenhouse for protected crops, a nematology laboratory attached to the greenhouse for studies in pots, totaling 21 hectares”, details Matheus. “From now on, we will have an experimental area 3,5 times larger”, he celebrates.

According to Matheus, the UbyAgro Research Station project aims to provide broad support for the development of new solutions and products from the Group's companies, helping producers from all regions of the country to improve the cultivation and productivity of different agricultural crops.

“From these two study stations, we will develop trials with soybeans, corn, cotton, beans, wheat, citrus, coffee and sugar cane, to support and substantiate a series of innovative solutions through applied research in the field and, in this way, guarantee greater assertiveness and profitability for the producer”, he highlights.

Uniube and Fazu, in return, will make the cultivation areas available. Uniube's Agricultural University will also grant 20 undergraduate scholarships aimed at the social inclusion of students with lower purchasing power.

“Students from these two partner institutions, who have degrees in agricultural engineering, will also be able to participate directly in the projects and in some training that will be carried out by Ubyfol and Vitales,” says Matheus. “We expect to be able to reap the first fruits of these two partnerships by mid-2025,” concludes the researcher.