Brazilian soy farmers try Huawei’s 5G technology as decision on Chinese telecoms giant looms
- The Brazilian farm state of Goias rolls out a pilot to increase productivity and take fast action against disease using Huawei’s 5G technology and equipment
- Brazil’s government is considering whether to ban the use of Huawei equipment in next year’s auction of 5G frequencies spectrum to telecoms companies
The 5G communications will allow producers to improve crops through the collection of information by sensors placed in the fields, on harvesters and drones, so that it can be readily crossed with meteorological and humidity data, said Huawei Brasil marketing director Tiago Fontes.
Combining fast broadband communications with real time cloud data processing will give farmers in one hour information that used to take three days so they can rapidly take actions against diseases and other threats to their crops, he said.
“We launched this application for soy to show how 5G used with drones can raise productivity and reduce herbicide costs,” Fontes said by telephone.
The pilot was launched in the soy-farming town of Rio Verde, and uses a 5G network built by telecommunications company Claro, a unit of Mexico’s América Móvil.