Bayer and Hispatec Agrointeligencia, a leader in horticultural management technologies, have reached a global agreement to promote worldwide food safety through their digital tools.
The aim of the agreement is to ensure that fruit and vegetables reach family tables around the world in compliance with the pesticide residue standards required by large retail chains.
The agreement was presented at the technology company’s stand during the international trade fair Fruit Logistica 2026, held in Berlin, by José Luis Robles, Head of Digital Tools at Bayer, and José Luis Molina, CEO of Hispatec Agrointeligencia. During the presentation, both companies announced their global collaboration to enable producers and cooperatives to easily access a digital system that allows them to anticipate compliance levels with MRLs (Maximum Residue Limits) under each public regulation or private standard.
The integration of both companies’ systems will be operational throughout 2026 in Peru, Chile, South Africa and Brazil, as well as in Spain, Turkey, Italy and Morocco.
Thanks to this agreement, Bayer’s ResiYou system and Hispatec’s Efemis and ERPagro platforms are now fully and directly integrated, allowing the food safety tool to be deployed immediately. ResiYou, developed by Bayer, is an Artificial Intelligence-based system that enables predictive analysis of pesticide residue dissipation based on treatment conditions and meteorological data. This AI draws on Bayer’s extensive experience and expertise in crop protection treatments.
Hispatec’s field activity control systems, for their part, allow for comprehensive planning and management of all activities and resource use in fruit and vegetable production anywhere in the world from a single platform. Thanks to the integration agreement presented at Fruit Logistica, this information now flows automatically into ResiYou, enabling quality managers to access Bayer’s reports to support commercial decision-making. Likewise, agronomic planning managers can design and adjust their treatments based on ResiYou’s predictive analyses. Through this collaboration, data from Hispatec’s systems will be automatically uploaded into ResiYou, so producers do not need to do it manually, greatly facilitating the use of the tool.
Immediate Application in Key Horticultural Countries
In his address, José Luis Robles, Head of Digital Tools at Bayer, stated: “We will continue working together to make ResiYou a benchmark in responsible residue management, driving innovation and sustainability in the sector. It is already commercially available for berry crops, stone and pome fruits, grapes and tomatoes, and is under development for crops such as citrus and other vegetables. In terms of geographical coverage, we are preparing commercial launches in 2026 in countries such as Peru, Chile, South Africa and Brazil, and we aim to increase our commercial presence in countries where it is already operational, such as Spain, Turkey, Italy and Morocco.”
José Luis Molina, CEO of Hispatec, agreed with Robles, noting that “the fruit and vegetable production and distribution network is global. Production is led by countries such as Spain, Italy, Peru, South Africa, Chile and Brazil. For this reason, Hispatec has subsidiaries and teams in most of these countries, and we have implemented our systems in more than 30 countries worldwide.” The head of the technology company also stressed that “with the advance of digitalisation, managers of companies and cooperatives are aware of the need to govern and extract value from the volume of data generated by each tool on a daily basis. That is why it is essential to have management systems specifically designed for agriculture, such as those developed by Hispatec.”
Both executives agreed that ease of use of technological tools is key to their widespread adoption. This is precisely the objective of the agreement presented by Bayer and Hispatec: seamless, frictionless integration between the most useful and comprehensive systems for agronomic management focused on food safety and the sustainability of global fruit and vegetable production.
