This year’s AgGateway Annual Meeting was a first for Marcelo Abreu of Venturus and he was pleased to be honored for his work for the organization in Brazil with the AgGateway in Action award for the Latin America Region.
“It was a surprise. I really didn’t know that I was going to be nominated,” said Abreu, who also was nominated this year to serve on the AgGateway Board of Directors.
Abreu also provided a presentation at the annual meeting on emerging technologies in agriculture from a Brazilian perspective.
“We do have a lot of projects related with data and related with artificial intelligence. I think that these are the most important projects that we do for the agribusiness in Brazil,” he said. “We are having nowadays a very good discussion about regulation of artificial intelligence that can impact a lot of areas including agribusiness and also we do have our old problem of connectivity in the farms, only one-third of the areas in Brazil have connectivity of 4G and 5G. So we do have a lot of challenges, but we also have have a lot of opportunities to make the digital agriculture to grow and to be more successful in Brazil too.”
Interview with Marcelo Abreu, Venturus – AgGateway Global Board Of Directors member from Brazil
AgGateway Global board member Marcelo Abreu, Venturur (5:55)