Incaper

Name

Incaper

Legal name

Instituto Capixaba de Pesquisa, Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural

Website

https://incaper.es.gov.br

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural Extension and Research Services

NAICS

Public Administration (92)

akta.pro primary industry

Farm Management & Decision Support Software (FMIS, ERP, Recordkeeping) (AFAGALAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Farm Management Information Systems (FMIS) & Farm ERPs (AFAAAFAA)

Keywords

• Agricultural extension services
• Rural technical assistance
• Agricultural research
• Crop management tools
• Agrometeorological data services

Headquarters

HQ city

Vitória

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Government Budget Allocation: Incaper operates as a state government institute under the Secretaria de Estado da Agricultura, Abastecimento, Aquicultura e Pesca (SEAG). It receives funding through state budget allocations rather than generating commercial revenue. Services are provided free of charge to farmers and rural producers throughout Espírito Santo.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Incaper is the state agricultural research and rural extension institute of Espírito Santo, Brazil, providing free technical assistance, applied agricultural research, laboratory analysis, and digital decision-support tools to family farmers, indigenous and quilombola communities, coffee producers, and other rural producers across all 78 municipalities of the state. It operates through a network of local offices (ELDRs), field demonstrations, technical publications, and digital platforms covering meteorology, soil and crop management, sustainability assessment, and agricultural market information.

Product overview

Incaper (Instituto Capixaba de Pesquisa, Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural) is a state agricultural research and extension institute that operates as a unified platform providing research-based agricultural services, digital tools, and publications for the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil. The portfolio includes technical support tools (Sistema de Calagem e Adubação, SATDES, Ferramentas de Apoio Técnico), sustainability assessment systems (Sistema para Avaliação de Indicadores de Sustentabilidade da Cafeicultura, Currículo Mínimo de Sustentabilidade da Pecuária Leiteira), agricultural market information (Sispreço, Painel Agro), educational resources (Biblioteca Rui Tendinha, Incaper Editora, Jogo do Incaper), and direct extension services (Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural, Análise Laboratorial). The digital ecosystem is built around interconnected tools for agricultural data management, weather forecasting, and decision support for rural producers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Biblioteca Rui Tendinha: The library of Incaper named after Rui Tendinha, containing digital publications and technical-scientific works.
• Incaper Editora
• ProICT
• Sispreço
• Satdes

Products and services

• Sistema de Calagem e Adubação Spreadsheet system for recommending lime application and fertilization for conventional and organic crops, based on the Manual de Recomendações de Calagem e Adubação para o Estado do Espírito Santo (5° Aproximação). Provides recommendations for over 65 crops including soil analysis interpretation, foliar analysis interpretation, fertigation, and simplified costing, targeting rural producers and technicians.
• Sistema para Avaliação de Indicadores de Sustentabilidade da Cafeicultura do Espírito Santo Electronic spreadsheet that assists users in measuring socioeconomic and environmental adequacy levels of coffee farms through indicators, protocols, and sustainability criteria following international certification standards. Targeted at coffee growers in Espírito Santo.
• Currículo Mínimo de Sustentabilidade para a Pecuária Leiteira Capixaba Decision support tool for capixaba dairy cattle with standardized technical parameters to evaluate the sustainability level of properties, structured around three axes: economic, social, and environmental. Targeted at dairy farmers and technicians in Espírito Santo.
• SATDES (Sistema de Aquisição e Tratamento de Dados Meteorológicos do Espírito Santo) Tool that gathers, organizes, and provides meteorological, agrometeorological, and climatological data for Espírito Santo, including climate projections. Offers real-time updated information with quality assurance through validation and data control procedures, supporting agricultural planning and weather forecasting.
• Jogo do Incaper Educational game that presents scientific research results from Espírito Santo in a playful format to democratize science. Features questions about nature, agriculture, and the work of Incaper, targeting students and the broader community.
• Biossólido Research program on the agricultural use of sewage treatment plant sludge (ETE) as fertilizer in agricultural and forestry activities in Espírito Santo. Includes criteria for recommendation and application based on crop requirements and soil carrying capacity, developed in partnership with Cesan.
• Sispreço (Sistema de Preços Agrícolas) Agricultural market information system providing prices and quotations for agricultural products to support producers and technicians in marketing decisions in Espírito Santo.
• Painel Agro Agricultural data dashboard providing analytics and visualizations of agricultural indicators for Espírito Santo, powered by Power BI, supporting public and producer decision-making.
• Biblioteca Rui Tendinha Digital library repository containing technical-scientific publications, research documents, agricultural bulletins, and educational materials produced by Incaper, providing free access to agricultural knowledge for researchers, technicians, and the public.
• Incaper Editora Publishing house producing technical-scientific publications, books, manuals, and documents on agriculture, livestock, and environmental topics specific to Espírito Santo, available to the public.
• Previsão do Tempo Weather forecasting service providing meteorological predictions and climate information for Espírito Santo to support agricultural planning and daily operational decisions of farmers.
• Análise Laboratorial Laboratory analysis services for soil, plant tissue, water, and other agricultural samples to support fertilization recommendations and crop management, targeting rural producers and technicians in Espírito Santo.
• Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural Technical assistance and rural extension services providing direct support to rural producers across Espírito Santo for technology adoption, sustainable practices, and agricultural productivity improvement, delivered through the ELDR network and individualized consulting.
• Atlas Climatológico do Espírito Santo Climatological atlas of Espírito Santo providing a panorama of climatic patterns of the capixaba regions, serving as a strategic support tool for agricultural planning and decision-making by producers, technicians, and policymakers.
• Boletim Agroclimático do Espírito Santo Quarterly agroclimatic bulletin providing climate data, agricultural weather information, and analysis for decision-making in agricultural production across Espírito Santo.
• Boletim da Conjuntura Agropecuária Capixaba Bi-annual agricultural economic bulletin providing analysis of the agricultural sector performance, production data, and economic indicators for Espírito Santo, targeting producers, technicians, and policymakers.

Quantifiable outcome

• 30 dam projects elaborated in Ibitirama municipality alone in one year
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability1 record

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Cesan (Companhia Espírito Santense de Saneamento)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint research collaboration on the use of sewage sludge (biossólido) from wastewater treatment plants in agriculture. Incaper and Cesan work together to develop technologies for appropriate application of treated sewage sludge in agricultural and forestry crops, following CONAMA resolution 375/2006 guidelines.
• FundagresminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership in the 'Fortalecimento dos Espaços de Comercialização Solidária através da Agricultura Familiar e Organizações Sociais da Grande Vitória' project, co-funded with Finep and municipal governments.
• Prefeituras Municipais de Vitória and other municipalitiesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMunicipal government partners in the project for strengthening commercialization spaces for family agriculture. Includes technical cooperation for agricultural development programs.
• Embrapa (Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for irrigation training programs. Embrapa conducted the 'IrrigaWeb: capacitação on-line em uso e manejo da irrigação' course with support from Incaper extensionists.
• IFES (Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership for the Seminário de Iniciação Científica e Tecnológica (SICT), co-organized with Incaper for student research engagement.
• SEAG (Secretaria de Estado da Agricultura, Abastecimento, Aquicultura e Pesca)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerParent government ministry under which Incaper operates. SEAG coordinates agricultural policy and projects including the Project Bank, and Incaper provides research and extension support.
• SEGER (Secretaria de Estado de Gestão e Recursos Humanos)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCoordinates the Prêmio INOVES (Innovation in Public Management Award) which recognizes innovative practices by public servants in Espírito Santo.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Emater-PR (Instituto Paranaense de Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural): Paraná's state-level technical assistance and rural extension institute, another official state-extension body that delivers field-day programs, soil/lab analyses, and crop guidance to family farmers — directly comparable to Incaper's Assistencia Tecnica e Extensao Rural and Ferramentas de Apoio Tecnico portfolio.
• Emater-MG (Empresa de Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural do Estado de Minas Gerais): State extension and technical assistance body serving Minas Gerais, the largest agricultural state in Brazil. Closely comparable to Incaper in mandate (technical assistance to family farmers, technology transfer, sustainability programs), differing only in geographic scale and that Emater is extension-only without a formal research arm.
• EPAGRI (Empresa de Pesquisa Agropecuária e Extensão Rural de Santa Catarina): State-level Brazilian agricultural research and rural extension institute serving Santa Catarina, structurally analogous to Incaper: combines research, technical assistance, and digital tools for family farmers across multiple municipalities. Most direct organizational peer given the research + extension mandate.
• IAC (Instituto Agronomico de Campinas): São Paulo state agricultural research institute under the Secretaria de Agricultura. Research-focused but operates as a state-level public agricultural R&D body with a comparable product mix of decision-support tools, technical bulletins, and crop-specific sustainability guidance for Brazilian family farming and agribusiness.
• Emater-DF (Empresa de Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural do Distrito Federal): Federal District's official agricultural extension service delivering technical assistance, training, and digital tools to rural producers in a defined subnational territory. Directly comparable in operating model to Incaper's ELDR-based extension delivery.

Broad incumbents

• Embrapa (Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária): Brazil's federal agricultural research corporation, a major Incaper partner (explicitly referenced in irrigation training collaboration). Larger, broader, and federally mandated; serves as the apex R&D layer that Incaper's state institute plugs into for knowledge and training.

Others

• CIRAD: French agricultural research and international cooperation organization focused on tropical and subtropical farming systems. Analogous as a publicly funded applied research organization producing decision-support methods, sustainability indicators, and capacity-building programs that inform emerging-market extension services like Incaper.

Emerging players

• ITAL (Instituto de Tecnologia de Alimentos): São Paulo state food-technology research institute under the same Secretaria de Agricultura as IAC. Comparable in being a state-level public R&D body that supports agro-industrial and family-farming value chains, though oriented to post-harvest/food tech rather than field extension.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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• Instagraminstagram.com/incaper_es
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/incaper

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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