100,000 farmers in the field are already benefiting from selling without intermediaries

“Today we have been in government for 26 months and it is not a dream, it is not a desire, it is not an expectation: there are already 100,000 farmers in the countryside who sell without intermediaries through this scheme that we have called ‘Agriculture Agreement’, Harvest and Sell ​​to landline “President Iván Duque said during his speech at the Business Formalization Conference.

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The head of state said that, in the midst of the pandemic, the national government’s goal is to finish 2020 with 130,000 field farmers registered in “ Contract Agriculture ”, to advance and achieve the goal of ending to the government with 300,000 connected producers.

“This sector of small producers who adhere to ‘Contract agriculture’ today enjoys the lowest rate that Colombia has had to finance: DTF -1% and, believe me, the minister (of agriculture and rural development), Rodolfo ZEA, there is no record in Colombia of such a low rate and we have it at the service of small producers in Colombia “he stressed.

This strategy, announced in December 2018, seeks to solve agricultural marketing problems by connecting the food industry and marketers directly with producers.

The head of state witnessed the new commercial formalization contracts between producers in the region, especially corn and cassava, which have signed presale contracts with Éxito stores, La Polar and Almidones de Sucre, reaching 105,189 producers, 33% of whom are women.

At the moment, fruit and vegetable producers (27%); coffee (22%); fishing (14%); cocoa (13%); in addition to milk and dairy products (8%), they are those with the greatest participation in the number of legacies (105,189 producers).

According to the data, between 2018 (December 7) and so far 2020 (November 6) Every day, on average, 148.1 producers are connected to “contract farming” and 1,030 producers do so every week.

Producers from Antioquia, Santander and Cauca achieved more sales

Although the ‘Contract Agriculture’ strategy was present in the 32 departments of the country, those with the largest participation in the 105,189 producers that have closed their activities are: Antioquia (16%), Santander (9%), Cauca (7%) , as well as Putumayo and Nariño (each with 6%).

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El Campo results in one click and business conference

Due to the covid-19 situation, “Contract Farming” has been adapted to virtuality with the One Click Field strategy. There, growers can offer their crops on more than 29 e-commerce platforms. To date, 10,147 new users have already been added.

In addition, the Business Days have been reactivated since September. In total there were five, in which 8,821 manufacturers were involved, who have business expectations of $ 35,000 million with 233 organizations.

Other figures for contract farming:

• 19,580 PDET producers.

• Contract farming target in 2020 is 130,000 producers

• The contract farming target to end President Iván Duque’s rule is 300,000 producers.