President Jair Bolsonaro participated this Wednesday in the official ceremony for the launch of 5G technology in agribusiness, on a farm in the rural area of Baixa Grande do Ribeiro, in the interior of Piauí. The ceremony was attended by ministers and parliamentarians. 
Fazenda Ipê, in Baixa Grande do Ribeiro (PI), is the first in the country to have 5G technology in rural areas.
President participates in the launch of 5G technology in agribusiness – Disclosure / Ministry of Communications
Among the possibilities offered by the new technology is the high data transfer capacity and internet speed, hundreds of times higher than 4G. In the field, 5G will be able to transmit data and connect thousands of devices on the same network. With this, it will be possible, for example, to expand the use of artificial intelligence with autonomous machines without human interference and internet of things (machines and devices connected to the internet). Remote use of tractors, harvesters and other agricultural machinery is planned.
The 5G auction was held in November last year and collected BRL 47.2 billion. Among the obligations signed by the operators that won the competition is to take the 5G signal to 1,700 locations far from urban centers and expand 4G to more than 7,000 rural areas.
“The farm, with 5G from TIM, from Nokia, will make our agribusiness, which is already so thriving, much bigger”, said Minister Fabio Faria. For President Jair Bolsonaro, technology will make the agricultural sector more productive.
“This event here obviously brings technology to the field, it is the first fully 5G farm. This will certainly have a productivity gain of around 20%, 25% or 30%,” he said.
Before the event in Piauí, Bolsonaro and his entourage participated, in the morning, in the inauguration of a station of Companhia Brasileira de Trens Urbanos (CBTU), in Parnamirim (RN), a city in the metropolitan region of Natal.
