Latin America & the Caribbean
Opportunities for UK companies
Agri-tech
Market Detail
The Latin America and the Caribbean agricultural landscape is quite diverse. The structure of Latin American agriculture is heterogeneous and has evolved differently across countries. Small, labour intensive, subsistence-oriented farms coexist with large, export-oriented, capital-intensive farms, which account for much of the commercial agriculture that sustains Brazilian and Argentinean wide range of exports: wheat and corn, oilseeds, cotton, sugar, livestock, and other high-value crops and fresh fruits. Other countries stands for animal protein and milk (Uruguay), soy and meat (Paraguay), coffee (Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala), wine and salmon (Chile), and bananas (Ecuador, Costa Rica, Guatemala)[1].
Opportunities in Argentina:
- R&D in plants and livestock
- Quality standards in all productive and agro-industrial processes;
- Traceability and certification services
- Big data management;
- Crops and livestock monitoring;
- Plant and animal health;
- Animal genetics;
- Best practices on environmental impact.
Opportunities in Brazil:
- Equipment that improves the quality and yield of crops
- Post-harvest machinery including field refrigeration units/storage for tropical fruits
- Grain storage
- GPS and precision devices
- Poultry equipment
- Irrigation equipment
- Fertilizers.
Opportunities in Mexico:
- Water technologies to increase efficiency use
- Agrochemicals and fertilisers;
- High-tech fruits
- Vegetable and cereals technologies to increase productivity
- Precision agriculture; livestock genetics; waste to energy technologies
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