'Harvesting Data': Latin American AI Startups Transform Farming

Source: International Business Times

CEO of Agrosmart, a tech-based agriculture startup, Mariana Vasconcelos, poses after an interview with AFP in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil AFP For centuries, farmers used almanacs to try to understand and predict weather patterns. Now, a new crop of Latin American startups is helping do that with artificial intelligence, promising a farming revolution in agricultural giants like Brazil, the world's biggest exporter of soybeans, corn and beef. Aline Oliveira Pezente, a 39-year-old entrepreneur from the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, was working at agriculture company Louis Dreyfus Commodities when she noticed a problem in how the farming industry operates in Brazil.