Máquinas Agrícolas Jacto S.A. (Jacto)
Jacto is a Brazilian agricultural machinery manufacturer headquartered in Pompeia, São Paulo. The company was founded in 1948 by Shunji Nishimura, a Japanese immigrant who established a workshop in Pompeia. Over more than 75 years, Jacto has grown from a small workshop into a global agricultural solutions company with factories in Brazil, Argentina, and Thailand, a commercial office, and a distribution center in Mexico and the United States. Jacto sells its products to more than 100 countries. The company offers a comprehensive line of high-technology products, ranging from pruning tools and portable sprayers to large machines for spraying, fertilizer spreading, planting, and harvesting coffee and sugarcane, besides cleaning and sanitation systems and services. Jacto also offers solutions and services for precision and digital agriculture. The company is also a partner of the Shunji Nishimura Foundation, which comprises a preschool and elementary school, a National Service for Industrial Training (SENAI), and a São Paulo State Technological College (FATEC) with courses aimed at agribusiness.
