KATU

Katu develops equipment for tropical regenerative agriculture, aiming to reduce and ultimately eliminate dependence on chemical herbicides while increasing biological complexity and root diversity in the soil. Its solutions are designed for tropical conditions and annual crops. Key focus areas include:

• Specialized machinery for the mechanical management of weeds
• Strip-till/bed planting systems with reduced soil disturbance
• Integration with cover crops and spatial crop rotation logic (“evergreen” systems)
• Continuous prototyping, initially focused on soybeans, corn, and cotton
• Scalable, replicable, and economically viable solutions for farmers

• Farmers who recognize the negative impacts of herbicides on soil systems and biota
• Producers facing increasing weed resistance and declining efficiency of chemical inputs
• Agricultural equipment and technology companies
• Agro-industrial systems seeking to build cleaner and more sustainable supply chains
• Researchers and institutions focused on innovation in tropical farming systems

• Demand for grains with lower chemical residues is growing in both domestic and international markets
• The current model is losing effectiveness
• Regulators and consumers are pushing for safer practices
• Data from the Instituto Escolhas study highlights the risks and limits of continuous herbicide use in Brazil
• There is a real gap in technical solutions for tropical systems—and those who fill it will lead the next generation of agriculture

• Practical, field-ready solutions for herbicide-free management
• Concrete pathways for productive transition in tropical agriculture
• Reduced operational risk and chemical dependency
• Improved soil integrity and nutritional quality
• High-impact innovation with strong scalability potential

As a global agricultural powerhouse and tropical country, Brazil needs its own technologies to address one of its most pressing agronomic challenges. Katu emerges at the intersection of market demand, sustainability pressures, and technical feasibility.

It is a company built for the present—and essential for the future of agriculture.