#Sementis: Ag Innovation needs people

#8 - October in LATAM - Sementis

Nov 04, 2023

Holaaaa, Oláaaaa, Helloooo

I hope you had a good month of October.

Now it is the final route to 2024. Now it’s even more important to be well-informed.

Be sure to check out my latest article about the need for (human!) workers in agribusiness. There is a summary in the “highlights”.

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Important: for some reason Substack isn't formatting the links with underline text, so I colored it to remember that each headline has a link to the original article.

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Topics we will cover:

🌱 Ag
🍇 Food
🌤️ Climate
💡 General News
👩🏻‍💻 Publications
🗓️ Events
💼 Job Openings
💬 Quote of the Month
👀 Before you go…

General:

Highlights:

Despite the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI), robots, drones and automation, agriculture needs people. Humans! And it's already employing them. Only in the 2nd quarter of 2023, the sector generated 28.3 million jobs In Brazil, which corresponds to 26.9% of the jobs created in the country. The biggest highlight was agro-services, with an increase of 7.5%, in relation to the same period of the previous year, followed by growth of 5.8% in the input segment, according to data from Cepea (Center for Advanced Studies in Applied Economics), in partnership with CNA (Brazilian Agriculture and Livestock Confederation).

The demand for work in the sector has also increased. From January to June 2023, the number of applications for opportunities in the sector on the National Employment Bank (BNE) platform reached 14,750, compared to 11,436 in the same period last year, which represents a growth of 29%.

With agribusiness becoming more and more tech-savvy, the sector has also entered the competition for technology professionals. From the most difficult to understand job titles, like “DevSecOps”, to drone technicians. From hardware to software, from machinery to backend. In the era of artificial intelligence, agriculture needs human intelligence.

However, the sector has been facing a lack of labor to face some challenges. Read the full article in my column on Futurecom Digital to know more.

Read the full article