São Francisco Seeds, from Pátria, buys Auma Seeds and enters MG **Note:** The original text is very short and already in English, so the translation remains the same.

Sementes São Francisco, a Goian company controlled by Pátria Investimentos, has acquired Auma Sementes. The operation marks the group's entry into the soybean seed market in Minas Gerais. The deal was advised by RFA Capital, which announced the transaction on its LinkedIn profile and highlighted the transaction as part of the consolidation movement in the sector in Brazil. Founded in 2016 and based in Patos de Minas (MG), Auma Sementes operates as a soybean seed multiplier and has as its founder the rural producer Cláudio Nasser, an entrepreneur with over 40 years of experience in agribusiness. With the operation, Nasser remains a minority shareholder of the company, in a strategic partnership that, according to the parties, preserves the continuity of the business and opens a new growth cycle. In the LinkedIn publication, RFA Capital emphasized that the soybean seed sector is still quite fragmented and has been undergoing a "natural" consolidation, driven by the ...