The purchase of land by the Government in the framework of the agrarian reform is advancing. According to National Land Agency (ANT)of the 2,321 sales offers received, 966 properties representing 147,634 hectares they have already exceeded the technical and legal pre-feasibility by the entity, that is, they are viable for acquisition.
The director of the ANT, Gerardo Vega, explained that what is sought is the purchase of fertile land for food production, for which the budget amounts to 1.5 trillion pesos.
In total, the goal is to benefit 300,000 families of which the 70 percent are located in the Caribbean region in departments like Atlantic, Bolívar, Córdoba, La Guajira, Magdalena and Sucre.
“The ANT has given priority to women and people with an agrarian vocation and in a position to make the field produce, for this reason it was sought that the purchased properties are not floodable lands, or illegally occupied, and that they comply with the environmental, agrarian and ecological provisions to deliver quality land. This is one of the goals of the Government in its fight against hunger and contribution to total peaceVegan said.
According to the agency, the properties that have been discarded so far have legal actions for domain forfeiture, inconsistencies in their cadastral registration or are linked to land restitution processes, for which reason they would not be viable for purchase.
In addition to this, the reform also seeks to formalize the land. To date, the entity has formalized more than 1.4 million hectares of which more than one million correspond to rural properties and 396,000 hectares more in four peasant reserve areas: La Tuna (Cauca), Güejar-Cafre, Losada-Guayabero (Meta) and Sumapaz (Bogotá).
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