Goal 3 seeks to ensure healthy lives and promote wellness at all ages. Agrocapsi contributes to target 3.9, which focuses on substantially reducing the number of deaths and illnesses caused by hazardous chemicals and pollution of air, water, and soil.

The use of chemicals and their residues generates health problems. That includes acute and chronic intoxication, as well as neurobehavioral and carcinogenic effects. Most producers in developing countries do not properly allow pesticides to decompose before they send fruits and vegetables to the market. Most consumers do not wash these agricultural products before consumption, which has led to the accumulation of pesticide residues (Abubakar et al., 2020).

During the interviews, we observed the importance of health care for institutions and producers. Engineer Efrain Lechuga from UCASA mentioned the importance of safety for crops to be exported. He also mentioned that many farmers avoid using toxic pesticides to protect their health.

Therefore, we designed Agrocapsi, a product whose active ingredients do not affect the health of people, plants, and animals, which in return does not generate residues (Geetha, et al., 2021; Khademi, M. et al.,2020). That allows taking care of the health of the producers who apply it and the final consumers.

In the future, Agrocapsi will be more than a project. It will be a company that seeks to take care of one of the most important economic activities for our state and country in a sustainable way. By protecting agriculture, we protect the jobs of approximately 13% of Mexicans (Corona, 2016). During the interviews, farmers explained to us the importance of agriculture and chile production to their economy. The losses due to disease caused difficult times for their families. By establishing the company, new jobs will be generated. With all this, Agrocapsi will contribute to target 8.1 of this Sustainable Development Goal.

Likewise, implementing new technologies for the protection of agriculture from diseases will strengthen the agricultural sector, increasing productivity and competitiveness, thus promoting the economic growth of the sector, ultimately contributing to target 8.2 of this objective.

Agrocapsi seeks to contribute to goal 9.5 by increasing scientific research and improving the technological capacity of the country's industrial sectors. As well as showing the value that synthetic biology projects in the industry.

We believe that mistakes provide a learning curve that allows us to grow and improve as a company. Therefore, through constant innovation and research, we seek to improve the product, guarantee its effectiveness and increase customer satisfaction in order to offer a product with the effectiveness of chemical control and the benefits of biological control.

SDG 12, Responsible Consumption and Production, attempts to eliminate the connection between economic growth and environmental degradation, increase resource efficiency and encourage healthier lifestyles.

Chilli producers have reported losses of up to 100% of their crops (Nabor-Romero et al., 2020). During field visits, we realized the magnitude of the wilt problem. Most growers have reported crop losses due to wilt. Everton Francisco, a producer from Brazil, mentioned that he had had losses of up to 25% of his production. Our project contributes to targets 12.3 and 12.4, which seek to reduce food losses in production chains while achieving environmentally sound management of chemicals and wastes throughout their life cycle. Additionally reducing their release into the atmosphere, water and soil to minimize their adverse effects on human health and the environment.

We are concerned about the environmental impact that Agrocapsi may cause. Therefore, the life cycle of the product involves a circular and sustainable economy, taking into account the consequences that it can provoke in the environment and its packaging. This extends its lifespan and reduces waste. In this matter, Agrocapsi contributes to responsible production and consumption.

Currently, around 2.6 billion people depend directly on agriculture, but 52% of the land used for agriculture is severely affected by soil degradation. Some of the causes of this degradation have to do with poor agricultural practices and the excessive use of agrochemicals (Cárdenas & Méndez, 2016; Guzmán-Plazola et al., 2016).

In the case of pesticide residues, these are washed into dams, rivers, and streams causing fish kills (Díaz, 2020). This is of great significance since fish provide 20% of animal protein to about 3 billion people, while their presence in the ecosystem allows for ecological balance (Bravo-Olivas et al.,2014).

During the interviews, Pablo Solis and Jose Luis Garcia mentioned that some alternatives to eliminate the oomycete Phytophthora capsici caused the death of all beneficial microorganisms in the soil, resulting in the loss of soil fertility.

Even though Agrocapsi does not remediate soil degradation or eliminate agrochemical contamination in water, it is a product with a lower aggressiveness than conventional pesticides and is sustainable. It contributes to objectives 15.3 and 15.5, which are based on the fight against desertification and the reduction of biodiversity loss, respectively.

In the future we want to be a company of human and professional excellence committed to the common good, strictly following legal regulations and an ethical code that promotes respect for life, dignity, public health and care for the environment.