The coffee guild hopes to collect 700,000 bags from the grain, generate more than 35,000 jobs and more than one billion pesos.
This September begins one of the most anticipated periods for Risaralda such as the main coffee harvest of the year 2025, which will run until December.
This cycle It concentrates about 70% of the annual production of coffee in the department, with an ambitious goal, Collect around 3.5 million arrobas, equivalent to 700,000 sacks of coffee.
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Beyond production, the social and economic impact that is anticipated for the department is highly considerable, because It is estimated that about 35,000 direct jobs will be generated, of which approximately 20,000 are stable labor, including owners of farms and permanent workers.
Besides, The harvest will be the engine that dynamizes the regional economy, With an income injection that will exceed billion pesos, which will be distributed between collection, producers, local trade and associated services.
To ensure that this season it elapses well, the department has the support of the United Plan for the 2025 harvest, an inter -institutional strategy that brings together the Risaralda Governorate, the Departmental Committee of Coffee Growers, Cooperatives, Public Forces and Local Authorities.
Within the framework of this plan concrete actions have been contemplated to improve security in rural areasenable care points for collectors, provide health and well -being measures, logistics guarantees and technical accompaniment for producers.
This harvest start implies not only agronomic work, but also a challenge of institutional, climate and social coordination.
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If everything goes as expected, Risaralda will not only maintain its position as one of the ten main national producers, but also will reinforce its role as a vital coffee region for Colombia, showing that, with technical supportsecurity guarantees and accompaniment policies, productive, inclusive and transformative crops can be achieved.
Source: Integrated information system
