Brazilian platform helps increase transparency of Brazilian crop data and provides security for investors.

Soybean cultivation has played a significant role in Brazil's agricultural landscape, especially in the state of Mato Grosso, establishing itself as one of the main pillars of the national economy. In the last six crop years, the area planted with soybeans in the state jumped from 10,363,327.32 hectares to 12,070,346.78 hectares, a significant increase of 16.47% (FarmGuideSoy, own data). At the national level, the panorama was equally impressive, with the total area dedicated to soybean cultivation exceeding 44 million hectares, reflecting a growth of 49.5% in the last 10 (ten) years (CNN BRASIL, 2022).

Alongside this growth, there was also strong pressure from international investors not to purchase Brazilian soy produced at the cost of deforestation in the world's largest tropical rainforest, the Amazon, resulting in the creation of the Soy Moratorium. This was the first international agreement for zero deforestation in tropical forests worldwide, where exporters and importers committed to not trading soy produced in Amazonian areas deforested after July 2008. Exporters use specialized companies, which generally rely on third-party data to monitor soy grown in areas deforested after 2008, whether from new soy areas or even from previously deforested areas.

FarmGuide Soy is a pioneering Brazilian platform for collecting data on soybean cultivation and deforestation throughout the country, with an emphasis on the Amazon and Cerrado biomes. Its proprietary data is based on Artificial Intelligence and is capable of identifying even small areas of forest replaced by soybeans, with a margin of error of only [percentage missing]. This platform has been monitoring national soybean production since the 2016/2017 harvest, focusing on the state of Mato Grosso, property by property. Furthermore, it also evaluates the productivity of each soybean-producing plot or property. Alta Floresta, a municipality located in the far north of the state, saw its planted area jump from 21,664.00 hectares in the 2020/2021 harvest to 70,599.10 hectares in the 2022/2023 harvest, with zero deforestation and primarily occupying degraded livestock areas due to the sudden death of pastures. Its algorithms, which also assess the quality of the pasture replaced by soybeans, provide greater security for investors concerned with the preservation of Brazilian forests, their biodiversity, and their contribution to combating global warming.

The platform is also capable of spatially mapping pasture areas in Brazilian municipalities. Currently, the Brazilian government intends to transform more than 40 million hectares of degraded pastures into production areas, financed by countries such as Japan. These producers will have access to a line of credit with below-market interest rates for this conversion.

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