For agriculture in Colombia, the path towards 2023 also shows dchallenging due to the different climatic events that have affected the productivity and crop profitability in various regions.
(Read: In 2023, the country’s economy would go down and without a parachute).
According to Jorge Bedoya, president of the Colombian Farmers Association, the future of the sector also becomes uncertain, since for its solidity, the projection to 2023 will depend of the capacity to adapt to climate change, and the mitigation of risks that can be done by the State and the private sector. “Today, what we are experiencing with the rains is generating increasingly serious problems and despite the fact that good practices are established by the producers, the excess water in the soil will complicate the preparation of the land and the production itself in the future. ”.
Likewise, Andrés Valencia Pinzón, former Minister of Agriculture (2018-2020), assured that profitability in agriculture is being affected by the growth in input costs. “This has generated an additional problem and that is that the scarcity of these is forcing producers to lower their guard when it comes to protecting crops”.
(Keep reading: Inflation will set the pace for interest rates and the price of the dollar.)
For Germán Palacio, general manager of Fedepapa, in the coming months the cost of food will also risesince as it happens in the sector, the second harvest of the year of the tuber is reduced, which generates a problem of supply and demand.
BRIEFCASE
