Netword Agro

Our main goal is to solve one of the most important and complicated problems of the world. To feed almost 8 billion people all over the world and at the same time take care of the planet. It is impossible to produce this amount of food without the extension agriculture and there is no extension agriculture without agricultural defensives, and we can't just call them agrochemicals or pesticides to solve the problem. We need to use these products consciously.

That's exactly what Netword Agro does, we developed 100% of our techology and it has more than 95% assertiveness. We are the only one to identify the agents who cause the damage before the damage itself. We generate the application files to all spraying equipments.

The application happens only at the incidence points providing a reduction around 40% with the use of pesticides, increasing the farmer profitability and productivity.

NetWord Agro improves the financial performance of farmers' businesses in their economic activities as they begin to have detailed and ongoing information on operations in their production areas associated with business intelligence and management actions.

The economic activity of farmers influences in a very significant way the development and sustainability of their countries, besides generating the necessary food to support its population.

According to World Bank data, 0.5% of arable land in Brazil uses precision agriculture, this figure is 5% worldwide. Precision agriculture is directly linked to digital technologies and farmers were excluded from this process because there is no integrated technological solution that encompasses all the steps and functionalities of it.

The current obstacles to including this economic segment of the digital economy are the lack of integrated technology and the high costs of traditional monitoring.

The use of NetWord Agro provides the average reduction of 34% of production costs in addition to a low cost of contracting (6% of the cost of traditional monitoring), generating a considerable increase in the profitability of agricultural production units.

NetWord Agro is a web / mobile computing environment with IoT and AI elements that integrates with the continuous data monitoring mechanisms, with proximity sensors, georeferenced variables, soil attributes and their dependencies. It provides the monitoring by images of georeferenced spatial variation of the attributes of crops (weeds, pests and diseases). It uses the sensed information in an integrated management environment of all stages of the harvest with the information of nutritional needs and the pesticides with their respective georeferenced spatial variations in 1 m² plots. Thus NetWord Agro allows a reduction in the use of fertilizers and pesticides, since only the real needs of each field are applied, thus reducing production costs per hectare, increasing productivity and profitability, improving farmers lives.

It also significantly reduces the negative environmental impact through georeferenced pest and disease infestation information that allows for the reduction of water, gas and pesticides.

Our target population is composed by agricultural producers who can benefit from our innovative technology solution, which at a low cost can transform and shape a new economic destination for these units and their owners with the use of state-of-the-art technology for precision agriculture and yet allow the reduction of the environmental impact through the information generated that makes possible the assertive use of biological control of pests and diseases, also allows the cultivation of organic crops in a controlled way, enables the reduction of water use and allows the conscious use of agricultural pesticides.

The producers are the main target, but all the system is affected by our results and benefits, when we reduce the use of pesticides, water, gas and other resources not just the environment is positively affected, but the entire economy because the costs reduction can be invested in other sectors.

Our solution support small-scale producers with access to inputs, because we provide the information of the real necessity of inputs reducing the amount of it allowing  them to use the products only where it is necessary, thus providing them capital, knowledge to improve yields while sustaining productivity of land.

We also provide scale practices and incentives for larger farmers to decrease carbon emissions, land-use change in order to provide georeferenced information about the pests, weeds and deseases to use the pesticides only where it is necessary. It means less water pollution, less pesticides on land,  less costs with these products.

Our solution is preditive, we identify the agent who cause the damage at the crop production before the damage itself.  Our monitoring occurs weekly with UAVs capturing the information and processing it in our mathematical model and AI solution.

We identify pest, weeds and deseases in extension agriculture cultures, like soy, corn, wheat, cotton, bean and sugar-cane. After the monitoring flight we provide the application shapefile to be used on the area, it allows the producer to apply the pesticides only where it is necessary reducing the amount of products around 40%, with the reduction of chemical products we also reduce the use of water and gas.

In our monitoring we use UAVs and proximity soil sensors, with this equipment's we process the information captured on the field manipulating it into a part of our solution.

From this, incidence maps and their severity degrees are generated for each of the agents that cause damage.

After the maps, the application shape files are generated, which are read by the spray equipment for application ate a variable rate, according to the degree of severity, and only at the points of incidence.

http://networdagro.com.br/blog... - Real cases of producers using NetWord Agro.

http://www.networdagro.com.br - Social proof of producers using our solution

http://www.folhamt.com.br/artigo/359874/Startup-paranaense-alia-aumento-de-produtividade--economia-e-sustentabilidade-no-agronegocio-

Our solution has environmental, economic and social impacts:

- Environmental: we reduce the amount of pesticides and inputs used on land, just applying it where it is necessary do not wasting resources like water and gas.

- Economic: we provide the increase of the farmers profitability. We do it through the costs reduction and the production improvement.

- Social: we allow better condition of lives to all the directly involved in our solution and all the community that they live in.

It currently monitor 20k hectares.

In one year we expect to be monitoring 100k hectares.

In five years we expect to be monitoring 1Million hectares.

We want to expant to other countries in our Continent like Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Uruguai, USA.

In five years we expect to expand our operations to European Union.

With this we are going to impact 1Billion people, with more sustainable food and less environmental impact on productive fields.

Our barriers are related to set a structure to operate in these Countries.

We aim to establish local partnerships to achieve these goals and overcome these barriers.

Our team is composed by 18 people. all of us are full-time staff.

4 - Development

7 - Field Technician

2 - Support

1 - Maintenance

2 - Administration

1 - Sales

1 - CEO

We have a multi disciplined background with people from Computer Science, Agronomical Engineering, Sales and Administration.

We have 2 Masters Degrees that are the start point of our technology.

Cargill

Corteva

Bosch

Biosev S.A.

C-Vale

Our business model can be performed at the agricultural units through local partnerships for operational monitoring and we are responsible to process the captured information to generate maps and application shapefiles.

What allows us to scale globally keeping local relationships in all places operate. Thus, we improve the profitability of the farmers, of the local partners and we scale globally our revenues.

We demand a fee value per hectare, per culture.

Because we consider our solution a way to produce more food reducing the environmental impact and improving the life quality of the farmers through the profitability increasing.

Our goals to expand our operations all over the world depends on the local partnerships setted in other countries. So, we need the local partnerships to expand our technology globally because they know the local farmers and local business patterns what is the key to our success.

We would like to partner with organizations who deal directly with farmers, with services or products. We aim to establish with them the partnership explained in the last question.

Because our solution improve the live quality of the woman who lives and work on land giving them information to allow woman and girls to have the power to manage agricultural units, too.

Because our AI solution improve the management of agricultural units, with more assertiveness information improving the life quality of the farmer increasing his profitability and its land productivity.

Because our solution improve the management of agricultural units,
with more assertiveness information improving the life quality of the
farmer increasing his profitability and its land productivity, reducing the use of pesticides in 40% what means less agrochemicals on land, less waste of water and less use of gas.