After 10 days of national unemployment convened by the rice guild of Colombia, of which the last three were negotiations with the National Government, the parties reached an agreement.
125 kilos load prices
According to spokesmen of the National Committee, the details of the Verde Paddy price regulation resolution are adjusted, incorporating the quality table in the parameters historically established (moisture and impurities) into the resolution.
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In addition, they indicated that The paragraph was eliminated in the face of regional volume and conditionsthat is, apply to the entire harvest at the national level.
Thus, the agreement signed to set prices by zones, are:
– Low Cauca – Load price 125 kilos $ 186,434.
– Center – Load price 125 kilos $ 198,686.
– North coast – Load price $ 189,098.
– Llanos – Load price 125 kilos $ 182,173.
– Santanderes – Load price $ 194,424
The rice guild and the Ministry of Agriculture discuss a resolution to regulate the price of the green paddy.
Regarding the regulation of the price of Paddy Verde rice, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, said:
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• The National Government, in use of legal and regulatory faculties, It will submit to the regime for regulated price of prices to the green paddy rice.
• The parties accepted the calculation formula established in the resolution proposed by the minegriciculture and its respective justifying memory, and agreed that the established prices guarantee production costs to the producer without generation of utility.
• This July 24 will be the draft resolution before the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (SIC), so that this entity issues the concept of lawyer for competition, within the framework of the provisions of Law 1340 of 2009. Once this concept is issued, the Ministry will issue the resolution subject to this Agreement.
On the other hand, the National Committee of rice strike is declared in permanent assembly until the agreed agreements are complied with This Thursday, July 24, 2025. They also indicated that a periodic table was established that will be led by the Ombudsman’s Office to corroborate that the agreements made.
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The signatories of the Agreement Act, National Committee of Rice Stop, Minagming, and as guarantors, mininterior, governors of the departments of Meta, Tolima and Casanare, and the Ombudsman’s Office.
Also, they assured that, both the act and the resolution (agreed in the negotiations) They will be socialized in territory with the participants of the national rice strike.
BLOCKS AND CLOSURE
The new price regime will apply to 1,400,184 tons of Paddy Verde rice during the second semester of 2025.
Regarding blockages, closures and openings, they pointed out that They will ask the country’s rice officers to give way to the closed roads once the minutes are signedfor which they will send images of the same already signed.
In addition, they recorded in the minutes, after the agreement, which says that:
1. The National unemployment Committee reaffirms its willingness to resume mobilizations that considers pertinent in the future and as a result of the monitoring of compliance with the agreed.
2. The National Government reiterated its “Vocation for dialogue and its invitation to the National unemployment Committee always prioritizing the routes of understanding“
Rice imports
The Ministry of Commerce will evaluate the viability of promoting the implementation of trade defense measures and Measures based on the policy of intelligent tariffs against imports of paddy rice and/or white rice“If the conditions established by applicable standards are verified“
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On the other hand, the creation of a technical commission was agreed with the objective of: identifying and implementing the mechanisms contemplated in the law that allow Build producers affected by the price drop in Paddy Verde rice from June 26, 2025 to the date of expedition of the resolution.
In addition to retaking, strengthening and implementing the package of measures they contemplated “Direct support for commercialization, Fonsa and the Access to Agricultural Inputs – FAIA in the first quarter of the year 2025, without prejudice to the identification of other mechanisms established in the law that allow guaranteeing the same purpose“
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The Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development will carry out a technical table with the National Rice Stop Committee in order to Find a definitive solution that allows to adjust the system and method of the economic instrument that allows the right access to the agricultural sector.
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Pension and parafiscal management unit (UGPP): The Ministry of Finance and Public Credit will lead a technical table in order to review the sources of information, such as the input to resolution 209 of 2020 for the determination of cost presumption.
Controls to collection centers: The Fiscal and Customs Police (POLFA), in coordination with the National Taxes and Customs Directorate (DIAN) commit themselves to carry out controls in the collection centers and in the mills in the places agreed on the table, in order to review the stocks and their origins.
Valentina Delgadillo Abello
Portfolio journalist
