 Thank you very much and a warm welcome to all the people that have added in our part of this digital fair, the first digital fair more rural and more digital promoting the positioning of digitalization in the region. And as we mentioned, this roundtable has a focus on how this digitalization processes in the rural world have seen its development with a focus in family agriculture and that they are creating the basis for the sustainable development. In that sense, we would like to thank and again to present our commitment and thanks to our presenters for sharing their experiences and also for developing in this challenging area. Today, we will have on the table some aspects that we have identified as relevant and also to recognize the great effort that is being done in different parts of our continent to promote digitalization in the rural area, recognizing that this demands an accelerated process to close the gaps. In that sense, I would like to introduce briefly the three groups of panelists that we will have in this table that are with us. We have the National Service of Learning Sena, Mrs. Maria Odelo Berrios from the experience of Brazil, Mr. Carvalho and from Uruguay, Mr. Eduardo Elizalde and Bernardo Ramos. These three presentations, these three panelists will share a balance of evaluation they have done from their experience in digitalization processes for family agriculture in different phases of family agriculture from the productive part, the trading and the development of capacities to access to the services. With further ado, just to remind you that each one of the speakers will have 12 minutes for their interventions and in the end of the three presentations, we will have a Q&A session and we will invite the people that are part of this round table so they can gather their comments and questions so we can ask them at the end. So with that, I would like to offer the floor to Maria Damaris, you have the floor and I will be the role to control the time to guarantee the compliance of the panel. So the floor is yours. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. So to begin the introduction that the goal of the challenge of digitalization in the world that we live in and currently the rural development processes that we have makes it necessary that in the rural areas with the producer we have these challenges and to put it in a context according to each territory, this needs of promoting the development in the rural areas. So there are important stakeholders like the need to have productive systems that are sustainable to develop a productive system that are efficient not only economically but also socially and environmentally friendly. So the producers might need these links to promote the systems and to develop trading systems. So there is also an important point that I think would be the basis for everyone and for the planet and the need of food security or food sovereignty that allow the importance to have the peasant organization for this rural development. So this production models should be efficient, non-pollutant and also to use technologies that the countryside can connect to the cities and to have a present and in a context in the different countries like in different stages of development like Latin America. It's not foreign that the Colombian countryside not all our producers are connected. So I think there is a point and there is a weakness because there are no connection in all the rural areas. Besides that, intelligent devices like a mobile phone also can help us to connect the peasants with their productive systems and the institutions and the organizations they accompany their development processes. So we have to begin first from this connection of internet on one hand that in some municipalities for example, the department of Antioquia in the city we have the disconnections and the municipalities have internet connections that are completely free where any person can have access to those networks for free. But when we go out of this municipalities, when we go to the countryside, we see that there is a problem in the access. This on one hand. So the connection is one of the factors that we have to tackle. The other one is digital education, both for the technical professionals. We have to begin with them, the digital education to promote the management of these tools that allow to transfer the knowledge to the producers that do not have the capacities. So we have to have this education, digital education process, and to allow the access so the peasants can reach. And we can do strategic alliances with the institutions to have alliances so the municipalities will be the head with the development secretariat of the rural areas and the planning so we can have zones for the different producers to be able to reach to these people. So this digitalization or this education can all we can also have also a census of producers to align them in strategic lines or groups of organized producers. So this information and this zoning is important and also to know who has the land so the producers can access to resources. So this will allow that in this databases, we can have relevant information to accompany these people, obviously, to have topics like agriculture tools for support and digital marketing can help us and they are important. Beyond that, it's important to see the context, the context in the countryside, we can have the spaces for development so they can reach and they can have a sustainable family economy through these processes. So we have to see how we link. So the institutions, organizations that support this type of projects and family agriculture can have the impact and the impact has to have an effect and a sustainable development and also to have networks where the productive systems are sustainable through time and not only through the inclusion of projects that are developed in record time and sometimes the producers stay in the same condition. So we need to have clear policies according to the development in each zone. So it's important to look at that, the uses of the land, the traditions and the sonifications for the producers. So that should have an effect and like to have a marketing network that promote the products and also with value added. So the process of the input inside also processes to transform, to generate new products so we can have marketing networks among the producers. So we should have an integration so with that we can have databases with the institutions to reach through their objectives and projects to accompany these processes in the rural sector. This will promote also to strengthen the technical capacities to strengthen these productive sectors that can be more profitable and also to have a more organized, a more trained product because through this digitalization we can also strengthen the administrative capacities. So generating an autonomy in their economic development. So thinking in all this time where we have a climatic change that we have suffered already in Colombia, we have been severely hit by this winter. So we see that they're suffering in the productive sectors. The soils, we have floods and avalanches and that have stopped to develop normally the production systems. So in front of these scenarios and in front of an important global development because we know that the development with territorial approach is important where basically we have to be organized end to end. For example, we have work I work in the National Service of Planning and Design, a government institution where all the Colombians we have the possibility to access to the training for the work in all the disciplinary areas. So in the primary sector, in the agricultural sector, we have the alliances with the municipalities so they can have databases of the producer. For example, with the municipality of Medellin they have five departments in the rural area that allow them through the development secretarial and agriculture. They can have a census of the producers and put them in groups with their habitat and to put them around the production line. So in this way as a training institution we can support them in the technical topics. So we accompany the producers in the field through this field schools where we promote the strengthening of the technical capacities and here we extend and accompany with the professionals so we can close technical gaps and accompany in this organizational strengthening to promote also with the other stakeholders, these lines of training for their products. So we can have a good product development of the family economy and the agricultural economy. Thank you, Maria Damaris for the experience that you have shared and she is leader of the Agrosan experience. So she has shared this vision of digitalization process to enable public policies with a territorial approach and evaluation of what are the main demands to generate spaces and opportunities that expand the economy and the digital capacities of the family agriculture to take advantage of this potential and to keep contributing to the demands of the agricultural systems that are so challenging. So there is so much that we can keep learning of the experience of Agrosena. Thank you very much and let's leave for the question and answers that we will have at the end of the panel of the round table. To continue I would like to offer Mr. Carvalho who is the CEO of Elite Farm which is a company devoted to promote digitalization. He's an engineer and he has worked also with the FAO and the World Food Program. So you have 12 minutes and if it's necessary I will let you know. So you have the floor. Good afternoon. First of all to thank this invitation and the agriculture for this work because without them we will not have no consideration. I would like also to greet the participants and especially Maria that helped me with a presentation from the context that we have and this is not a specific situation of one country or a specific region. I would like to share my screen. I don't know if you can see it. Okay can you let me know if you can see it. Okay so what I wanted to bring here and it's the family agriculture. There are some needs that we have to see. This is the agriculture 10 years ago is not the same. Maybe there are different means and technologies and the same happens with what happened 20 years. I speak because I am a son of family agricultures so the context was one and now there are different opportunities and challenges that are different than the ones from 20 or 30 years ago. In transformation the reality is more or less like this. The family agricultures in the majority are people over 50 years old or 60 years old which limits a bit their working capacity in the rural areas. So this also limits the size and often they do not have a support in the sense of teams or equipment or low-cost technology that diminish the efforts that they have to do in the farms. So that's why young people don't want to participate in this process because they see as a limitation. It's better to go to the cities to try to find work in a motor taxis or working in trade than be remaining in the property. It's better to have a condition to go or in the best cases they go out to study the young people they go to a technical school or the university and then they are hired by other companies and and then don't look back at the businesses of their parents. So to work in this context then we have limited labor or scares where we have a place where there is no they don't know how to make this different. So basically what we think this is one of the challenges and I think to look at agriculture I like to compare is to see an economic activity that has a high impact. Here I'm going to make a comparison that seems simple but if you are baking bread he has 365 days of work like the farmer but every day he can have a different variable he can make try new processes. If we say that the baker has 40 years of experience so he has tried 14,000 times to make bread. The agriculture no the farmer no he has 40 attempts one attempt per year one harvest per year and one harvest in summer and one harvest in the winter. So how this capital that has been invested can have a product so they can have a good return because they are subject to droughts and also there is no rain as you can see in the map there is a red area that never has rain. So obviously we have also the problems related to the management of insects and plagues. So agriculture is too important to think it as not a need to work specifically within the best standards and the best practices. So Light Farm was born to think how to improve the development and to accelerate this access to technologies that increase the productivity of the farmer that increase their capacity to be in an adequate working condition and to have better conditions. So when we ask about asking digital means this is what happens with other technologies they need connectivity and there is no connectivity in the farms. The problem is that the operators like the phone operators have internet of for one person and one phone but in the farm or in the countryside we can have information from the soil from the plants from the rain from the amount of animals. What would happen if an animal would have a GPS for example to confirm that this animal has affected a deforestation that is in an area that was not recently opened as a pasture. So what type of data do you want to generate and what amount of other volumes of information we can have that goes beyond the people so we can talk with this operators and to show that the competitivity of the agricultural market is based on the environment what it is and not only of the person that is going to have a phone because if we only speak about a person we are going to take 10 or 15 more years. So we're speaking about simple practices if we plant what should be the condition for to plant the seeds how to make the standard how to diversify the sources of income and the technologies to support the sustainability the small appliances that we can use like this is the case of this one that the plants that changes for a wheel system that has for manure and for seeds and that creates this standardized and here you can see the comparison of what this equipment versus the manual planting we're speaking about 10 times faster more standardized and with better quality for the crops here just an image see of one of our clients that use this equipment so you can see the standard of the crop and a person that has 50 years with a small capacity to do three or four hectares he now can do it because he is not able to invest more in labor so technologies of this level of what we're speaking to to make this conversions also for another area that demands a lot of labor is for also for the harvesting for example for corn we have developed being a system of one line of corn that it's not necessary to have a tractor to invest 30 40 000 dollars to harvest and the same for example for the cotton that can be a technology to improve the capacity to invite young people and women to work and also to have less effort and there's another technology within the harvesting which is for the play control and what I'm going is to find how to produce a discussion so which type of technologies and which type of transitions we can make and beyond machines and small appliances we are speaking that there is a big space to change agriculture in small and small and medium scale so in small and medium producers and cooperatives how to standardize to have tractors with high level of precision this what you can see here is a tractor of 40 years ago that we installed the automatic pilot that we have and with this system there is a connection with the gps and more or less the tractor is making the positioning to go online and it has a mistake of two to three centimeters and why is this important and this is an area that was using a tractor in one of our plots and you are going to see an area of a hundred hectares a hundred hectares if the tractor gets a mistake in 10 centimeters in each loop it makes the agriculture or the farmer has lost more than a thousand kilos more than a ton only because he was planting in bigger spaces so how to improve productivity per area it's just making an adjustment to minimize human mistake so as you can see here this is where we have to make the new line and with this system we would have the adequate precision and you will not make mistakes into having lines with different measurements and this is how you can improve productivity this is another line of equipment that we must be promoting and for here we have the last nine the last one is the system to monitor planks at technology we can use for any type of crop or place where there is an artificial intelligence that identify and sense the information and this will be the basis for the localized control and why is this important because this is a trap for cotton to monitor one of the planks and when the insect goes into the trap we count the insect and we transmit in real time how many insects when it has entered and we can eliminate the costs of we're speaking of a space to insert biological places because smaller population of planks we can use biological use products so this is an area in red would be how to make three formigations of with insecticides this is the system that we do now where all the week a person has to do to go to buy these chemicals and then he makes an average and we can apply this but our system you have a clear indication that it's not the whole neighborhood that has the insects the focus would be more on this this is the picture of day one and how they could have been controlled the area if it took me a week to go there manually in a week the situation would be different would be this one in fact the amount of plague was increased due to a problem that they did not give an answer in the adequate time so we're saying that technology comes to bring answers to the producers and so they can move forward and to have a better condition to plan to harvest and to be more sustainable so this is what I would like to speak in this range of technologies and the spaces that we have discussed and I am open for any question thank you very much for your information leave and for being so punctual thank you so much I would like to mention a couple of things that you are from your presentation that I thought was very important is this thing about resolving problems and focusing on that with regard to the family farmers and especially towards improving their working conditions which is not always seen with that point of view from that angle and this is definitely going to improve the efficiency of the systems and the performance but so long as those conditions working conditions for those family farmers are concerned the improvement is paramount important this is not just digital we need to use other technologies for the different parts of the productive process I think it has been a quite an interesting presentation of yours thank you very much and now I would like to give the floor to the last participant of this panel which is something that is that comes from Uruguay Mr Eduardo Elizalde who is a computer analyst graduated from the Republic of Uruguay and also Mr. Bernardo Ramos a communicator from the University Republic of Uruguay who is currently responsible of the Communication Human Resources Department both of them are part of the Cooperative Rural Union of Uruguay which is a an organization that offers integral solutions and helps for productive unproductive needs of these associates and we want to thank you very much for your experience and the time you're sharing here with us and also would like to reiterate that we have a shared time for you there is 12 minutes in total and I will be controlling and so thank you I give you the floor please go ahead thank you very much good afternoon everyone on behalf of the rural union a very special thanks to FAU FAU for having invited us as panelists to be able to share with all of you a little bit of what we have been able to develop at their cooperative and our digitalization process and and focused on the rural production and I think we thought it was very good to share with you an additional video here that will show you something more and more complete look of the of our services and what we offer and we coordinate so I'll be happy to if you could please share the video and then we can continue thank you we are a cooperative business with a very good record and we're based on our values and our trust relationships with the people and since 1959 we have been working with a firm commitment to our service and production and this allows us to offer integral solutions to the needs of our associates and adapt permanently to the agribusinesses our values are based on the cooperative system and we they are the hub of our actions and we are convinced of our importance and our impact in society therefore we like to promote and we offer solutions that are oriented and focused on the producers so that we can work together in a seamless way a rural union of flowers we understand for instance that we need to have successful results to guarantee a successful productivity based with an efficiency and a professional team that will be accompanying you at our cycle and sharing business and experiences to become a strategic ally for the decision-making and we are next to the producer at all times right there where you the production begins and ends and grows we have learned what it means for you the value of your production and we look at the market every day we analyze it and we share it in very dynamic context just today's we are currently constantly looking for solid transparent and secure tools that will allow the producer to make the right decisions right on time and we think of businesses on the long term and based on mutual trust that will allow the producer to develop its production and with the backing of a very important organization that is committed to offering you the best services and results and we are aware that the productive activity of our country in the region is depends on the infrastructure and a human team that is consolidated and integrated and committed and we are at your service and we have an excellent operational capacity that can adapt itself to all sorts of productive situations through our services we accompany the producer in all the stages of the productive cycle and we facilitate the efficiency and we guarantee the compliance with the quality standards that have been committed to and we have an important role both in the market place and with the clients and we are sure that we can improve the productive efficiency of the sector here at the at this cooperative for rural flowers and we share experiences in the lately we have incorporated the use of new information and communication technologies and we adapt them to the needs of the sector and these tools allow us to be closer to the producer with tracking systems for the production and other commercial systems as well and that's the reason why we looking to the future to a better future with the use of technology and caring for the environment and human and natural resources and so we are committed to this and our commitment brings us to work very strongly for every with every project for every project and we want to help impact the community in a positive way we are we have great challenges and we want to be the best productive tool to allow our producers to strengthen and develop their companies their businesses in a sustainable way with innovation and adding value to the agribusiness chain union the florist the the value of producing together union the florist it's a flower cooperative thank you i would like to complement the information that we have offered already about the cooperative this is a cooperative that was founded in 1959 we have been around for 63 years we work with 900 producers out of which 700 are working actively with the cooperative and the profile of our producers is a medium-sized producer for the the dimensions of the the farming areas in Uruguay they have about between 100 and 500 hectares each and they work about 180 collaborators in this cooperative in all sectors we are in the flower department which is the center part of Uruguay where we're located and we're going to see another map with other neighboring departments and the volume in all in all we have about 44 000 hectares and in winter and 551 000 in summer and we have over 230 000 tons of grain basically our cooperative has certain productive lines which is livestock and agriculture livestock we commercialize in the year about 12 000 cows and 18 000 cattle i'm not going to go into more details about the flowers but in the latest latest year last year we had about 54 million dollars and this cooperative currently has a net worth net worth of 91 million dollars or this has to do with our social responsibility we have a recycling plant for plastic residue wastes and some other projects that are in along those lines as you can see the location on the map of Uruguay where we concentrate where we are concentrating which is more more on the central part of Uruguay we have two branches that are in the neighboring departments or provinces as we i don't know how you call them in your country the idea is to tell you a little bit about how what the structure we have is like and Eduardo is the is in charge of the systems department he will tell you in a summary the processes of digitalization that the the cooperative has developed and the work of the producer and how everything matches and well i'll tell you good afternoon i'll tell you what we have developed with our producers we have our starting point is the the the place where we have all the information about the producer and the way they manage the the farming and we annually manage 2000 farms which is 77 000 of hectares productive hectares per year out of which 68 percent have two two crops and we have about 24 000 registered visits of technicians to the farms and the average of producers is about 220 hectares per producer that's the average all of this information that we have in the system is referenced both for the the farms as well as the monitoring and the and the records the verification or the campaigns actually begin with the selection of the farms and the produce to be to be used and planted like and all of the things like seeds export import and the commercial areas for for purchasing of inputs and and the seeds and also for insurance coverages for those crops and when we monitor the farms we wanted to digitalize because we wanted to share information with the producer and each visit to the chakras we or the farms we have an evaluation and assessment where we can put it put up images and videos on the performance of the crops and the harvest and so on and everything is put in on the site and then when you where this allows us to work on areas where we don't have any connectivity and so they can access it whenever they have connectivity but we monitor we can monitor this on the cell phone or on the web and we can we can also share the web with our producer via whatsapp and so we have our the the sales department is also part of the system and so the producer can actually also purchase the the inputs there and when with all the information that is uploaded we can analyze it and then make decisions and we have what is most used are for instance the progress and the monitoring of the progress of the crops and the and this is also used for the logistics area and to coordinate all of the logistics that have to do with tools this logistics team system for seeds and grains it's an integrated system and so we use location area and this allows us to plan when we're going to get the seeds and where we're going to be receding receiving the seeds and if in case we're using a certain plant we'll know at which plant that grain or seed is going to be delivered during the harvest the producer requests some help from one for one farm and then they're assigned a transport and the transport is given the coordinates of the farm and the destination of the load and the ton tonnage and if it's if it's confirmed then they are both communicated and and then if there are any changes the transport has been all the after the unloading the transport is available for another trip and so they coordinate amongst themselves the logistical people have the locations both at the request of the transports and also the simple trucks and so this allows them to further coordinate transportation for the benefit of the farm farmers both for transporting sale seeds and so on or for purchasing and selling inputs all of the information that has been put into the application or the request is is there on the form and then that is shared with others and and the information about quality is also recorded the producer is has access to all the information of course whether from the website and you can look at statements account statements and other aspects of the business we know that this is going to improve the management of the cooperative but we still have some other processes to improve that will allow us to give a better service to the producer we are right now changing our we're trying to optimize the cooperative and we're changing our systems also we're integrating other operators and we're using another electronic platform that will allow us to know before the truck arrives for unloading what where he's coming from and what he's bringing on and from what supplier so this is for now it just very very in short I wanted to mention that the area the communication area of the department of the cooperative is important to mention and the use we we make of the digital media the social networks and if we're planning and and for communicating and for marketing with the producers so we use everything that has to do with the networks that we all already know so we are present on all chains and we reach the producer and so we use what's up in your way at least that is very much a universal tool now and amongst the small producers and family farmers and also producers who have a higher profile more of a business profile but they're also using the same tool so it is the most fluid way for communicating with the producers via what's up and so on and also it has to do as you see there the presence of the main social networks and where we also communicate and inform about our activities and things that we're doing from the cooperative so that was briefly a our report about what this is all about if you have any questions of course we are here for resolving any concerns any questions that you may have thank you very much Eduardo and Bernan Mardo in the rural union of flowers thank you very much it's been quite interesting to hear you I think it's important to highlight how in this particular case digitalization has come to dynamize the cooperative services that you've already offering and but at the scale that allows a facilitation of an ease of the whole work and your best practices and I think that it's very important to see how that productive chain is being linked in different ways and so now not just the production but also the commercialization and the education services and other services that are generated within the same entity and pertaining to the activities that you've mentioned and this is what contributes to goes to strengthening the capacities of the producers for a set for a perfect management using digital tools so right now we are looking at some of the comments and questions from the audience here and I would very much like to ask you to give me a chance at two minutes two minutes to consolidate the questions and submit them to you first of all some questions are general that we will ask you for to take two minutes per participant for to answer those general questions I think let's start I think it's been mentioned within the introductions before we use before we hear from you about the alternatives please from your experience in context both sectorial as territorial what would be the main gaps that you recognize or that you have had to chat to face that are hindrances for the farmers or family farmers to reach or access these tools and digital media we've already discussed that earlier but maybe you can just summarize the main barriers that we find of main obstacles taking into account and from the perspective of your family farmers in your particular places so let's hear from your from our speakers well undoubtedly one of the main gaps that we have in my country is connectivity in reality accessing internet in the rural areas is rather a challenge for the small producers who basically need to overcome this which is the most important thing connectivity and again the commercialization of the products when we mentioned development of agriculture and technology implementation the small producer cannot implement it that easily and that's the reason why it's important to have applied technologies that will facilitate things on out in the countryside in the farming areas and of course we have a great large percentage of our territory which is held by a certain number of producers and a very small percentage is very productive and therefore efficiency in these areas need to be covered by clear policies another important challenge is that there are many groups that are marginal groups and that have they have hindered the access in so that the rural population doesn't really have access to certain territories and bring the technologies to certain territories because of these marginal groups that have been very active and so those are some of the important aspects that are really the main main obstacles okay thank you Mariana Mr. Joel I think a critical problem for us is we need to have more demos in other words having pilot programs make the farmers who have who are not very trusting they can who are not very amenable to these changes are to going for new things they can have something clear and they can see how the benefits and so I think there's a larger room for growth there and also in terms of presentations of these new technologies that is a way of going the way to go in the end most of them once they see the demo then they realize that they can probably incorporate these technologies here in Brazil we have four million family farmers and we have five million farms and and these producers that are in the transition between family farming and just full-fetched farm that is not just producing for subsistence they are going to begin to take risks in these and assume these new processes and this is by introducing and pilot programs with them and demos and supported by government or regional policies and supports and associations and cooperatives that actually facilitates the democratization of these kinds of innovations that we currently have for farming communities thank you very much Joel maybe Eduardo or Bernardo would like to add something well in our case frankly the difficulty for adopting these new things has to do with the generational gap generally the young generations are the ones who can adopt more easily and faster these innovations and these new applications and things that we have mentioned and with in terms of connectivity Uruguay in the last few years improved has improved very substantially we're a relatively small country in terms of land and territory extension and the coverage is rather good in the rural areas the advantage that we have in our system is that we can work offline and once we catch some good connectivity we can connect them we can exchange information and so as Florencia was saying from the side of the cooperative we have been we are permanently offering demos and of course the tools and also remarking and and highlighting everything that we can achieve not just in terms of savings but also in saving time not just money for a productive management thank you very much colleagues I think we have one more question and it's also going to be a general question so that you all can respond to that because it has to do with everyone and so this question has to do with alliances or the players well you know the farming sector sometimes we see it like very isolated or sectorized with very specific areas but who else should be part of this what other players should we invite other sectors of society that could actually be dynamizing these digital technology implementation in our region what what do you think and so let's go in the same order well the accompaniment and institutional alliances are very important in Colombia we do use accompaniment by a university your non-governmental organizations and from the US and from the European Union we have we have to look at the context the social context to see and make sure that the accompaniment is also a local national regional not just international in in the country and so all of these efforts are very important and we need to highlight that each one of the institutions with their own objectives for development for rural development they need to reach their goals and they have their indicators and many times we see that some of these efforts are not channeled towards the development of the communities and so being repetitive in our actions is something and so we have objectives that can be channeled and can be directed in a in an efficient way and I think we need to also work a little more with business sector the private sector to include a productive sectors that can also benefit the rural families and those alliances we also need to take into account the universities all the academic world for research and all of that because that concerns the rural families as well and the innovations in technology also we can have all that applied research so we should use everything we can use and include everything we have we have some productive alliances but I think we could even be better in this and we can make extra efforts to be more efficient more effective as well thank you very much I'd like to tell a story personal story this connectivity issue is very critical because we have developed some plans and those and for them we need to send out some messages for instance we need to do this or that I mean some activity so when we began to understand and see where we had connectivity to understand what we should do and so we realized that we're still lacking in the people of this of the city and you know the we know that we know the telephone operators we need to understand we need to send that message to them we tell them with a potential that we have in the farming areas and so we in the end had to resolve this and we need to develop those solutions ourselves we imagine if they start thinking that within a farm they have about hundred people which is a large farm with 100 employees for instance however they have only 30,000 40,000 cattle and so we're talking about a city of 30 40,000 people that before it would be understood as only something of 100 people who are accessing phone services but now we have 80,000 individuals those are included those animals that are going to be monitored that are going to be tracked and that are going to do a series of works there so this is another thing that I would like to highlight once again it's the university thing this is academia going beyond the traditional though we're going beyond new careers and so on and we have to start creating career programs that have programming software and electrical engineering and all of that for the farmers because in the end these professionals don't know exactly what is happening in their own sector in their livestock sector and that's why they should usually develop the farmers develop their own farming programs to resolve their own problems for instance financing farming credits and all of that so they are developing programs are developed for the urban areas and so the people who develop that is because they can create a program or an application to solve the problems but the farmers themselves don't necessarily know how to do that and so when these solutions are created that they're created because somebody got to know that information and sometimes you find out that a plague is is not a problem or is a problem and then you need to know what kind of insecticide it's not your obligation to know all that but the fact that we can communicate the capacity to integrate areas then we can of knowledge of today to to have an inter inter communication is vital between different sectors and then we can open up a tool a box and a solution box for technologies for agriculture for zootechnics and for veterinary sciences and also the digital programmers and all of that can come together to bring about some solutions joseo thank you very much and let's hear from benardo and eduardo well every in reality we believe that alliances here in this digitalization issue should include the public policy and from the ministry of livestock and and also they need to be linked to the digitalization processes and we as a cooperative are are part of a federation we are and we have a cooperatives of the uruguay and that federation is also very active in trying to connect everybody with projects and alliances that include digitalization and we also work very closely with the national institute for agricultural research which is a paris parallel with the pair it's a parameter still project and we are working with the digitalization and we are informed of everything that's happening and also we have here in uruguay a national agency for development and that also has some promotions of public policies that have to do with developing of technology innovation project development and so on even though the great thing would be to have something more focused on development of farming as i was saying we would love to invite academia not that is not linked to the sector but everything from academia that has to do with software development and technology to start thinking about solutions for that farming sector okay thank you very much to each of the families for their presentations and their ideas and i think this has been a fantastic panel and i think this table has complied with the objective in other words made some kind of a balance we know that this is a road to be trodden and we're still starting and this is a balance in terms of the status and where we are right now we still have some gaps we still have some obstacles to face and also bearing in mind that the human creativity will have some answers to all of this and so the balance will always leave some questions and also but also some lights in terms of the shared experiences i'd like to highlight three three issues that were very common one is the integral vision of rurality not just the the farming activity or the cattle activity but the rural territories with specific needs and development and sustainability and also how technology is generated to solve these problems and i like the idea that these solutions are not have to be thought for the solving the problem that is generated within a certain context within integral vision that recognizes that we are even improving living conditions and integration and social inclusion for the rural inhabitants and also since this is integral we cannot do this on our own because we need to get together and join forces and this is the political dialogue for designing policies for digital inclusion not no longer just to promote digitalization but to democratize digitalization and to generate other faster mechanisms for socializing everything and also providing access to training and technology and we have plenty to work on for for the future and thank you to those of you who have shared those experiences with us one more the social agency is very important those who are main players in this process whether family farmers individual farmers or associates or cooperatives or whatever as well as the the handlers the managers of those digital inclusion processes we may have the applications we could have the technology we can even have the equipment but if we don't have an appropriation of the things and if we don't trust the inclusion of these technologies we won't have the results that we want to have i think this has been a very rich panel a very knowledgeable panel that has opened it's been like a taster right it's a motivation for us to continue to explore alternatives alliances and and work opportunities for this farming family farming sector to complete this this round table i'd like to thank 664 attendees who have been part of this first day of the fair whether on youtube twitter twitter and other social media and the 352 people who actually uh registered on the platform who has visited who have visited all the stands and all of the other resources that we have this fair is within the initiative of the 1000 global villages digital villages and the idea is that we accompany these countries and put them available make them available to all those who are just beginning new processes and so we invite you to continue to look at the fair online and to participate in different activities that we have prepared for tomorrow the webinars and all other workshops because we we want to continue to share information and experiences and through this network that we find very valuable and from FAO we we thank you for having accepted our invitation to be part of this process and let's invite the panelists to continue with their activities and their fine work that they're doing and share it with them with everyone else thank you very much in this and have a great afternoon