CHALLENGES AND BARRIERS ON THE PROCESS OF AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION OF AGAVE CROPS.

Brazil is one of the largest food producers around the world, with agricultureresponsible for a large part of the country's gross domestic product. Due to globalwarming, many crops have had their cultivation affected by the climate crisis. Plantspecies that have the capacity to supply products and resist the effects of the crisishave shown great commercial potential. Agave, for example, has several high-valueadded products and is already widely cultivated around the world. On the other hand,this cultivation is mostly manual, harming the competitiveness of agave cultivation.Therefore, this article provides a review to expose challenges in the process ofagricultural mechanization in agave cultivation, addressing its roots, impacts andproviding ways of coping.