Fires threaten agribusiness

Rural fires represent one of the biggest financial threats to the Brazilian agribusiness. According to the Confederação da Agricultura e Pecuária do Brasil (CNA), losses reached R$ 14.7 billion in just three months of the last year, with a particular emphasis on São Paulo, which recorded R$ 3 billion in damages and over 240 thousand hectares of sugarcane destroyed. Cases such as the fire in a silo in the interior of Goiás, which consumed more than 10 thousand tons of grains, and the one that occurred in a soybean dryer in Ponta Grossa (PR), illustrate the seriousness of the problem. Most of these incidents are linked to electrical failures in old, overloaded installations without adequate thermal monitoring. "The Brazilian agribusiness, responsible for almost 25% of the national GDP (Agribusiness GDP Report, 2024), increasingly depends on technological solutions to ensure productivity and safety in environments with high energy demand. However, this advancement in mechanization ...