Productivity · News · 🇧🇷 Brazil
A Chatbot as a Farmer's Technical Assistant
Globo Rural lists uses of AI in agriculture, such as a chatbot that answers questions about fertilizing and planting.
- Profession
- Farmer
- Tools
- ChatGPT
- Source
- globorural.globo.com ↗
- Country
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Report date
- November 10, 2024
- Verified on
- October 24, 2026
What they did
A Totvs director describes a ChatGPT-based chatbot that answers questions about fertilizers, pesticides and planting techniques, along with uses in weather and irrigation.
How it went
The account gives no numbers.
Good to know
Pesticide doses only with an agronomic prescription. AI doesn't know your soil.
The prompt
I grow [crop] in [region], with [soil type/summary of analysis]. What questions should I bring to my agronomist about fertilizing during [stage], and which terms in the soil analysis do I need to understand?
Replace what is in [brackets]. Prompt written by us from the account, not a literal copy of the source. Do not paste other people’s personal data (privacy laws such as LGPD and GDPR apply).
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