After President Gustavo Petro declared internal shock due to the serious public order situation in the Catatumbo region, this January 30 was issued with which “with which”Protection measures of agricultural areas, productive and supply chains, agri -food systems, and generation of stability conditions and restoration of supply and the guarantee of the human right to food“
The measure applies in the Catatumbo Region, the municipalities of the Cúcuta Metropolitan Area and the municipalities of the Gold River and González del Cesar departmentfor peasants, small and medium producers and their organizational forms, within the framework of the state of internal shock.
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In the decree it is ordered Adopt measures for protection, restoration and stabilization of agricultural activities“Agricultural and livestock areas, irrigation systems, the restoration and conservation of agri -food systems, productive and supply chains, food supply and the guarantee of the human right to adequate food affected by the serious disturbance in the territorial entities indicated in the article 1 of decree 0062 of 2025“The document points out.
Cúcuta y Tibu- norte of Santander January 2025 This is how the deployment of soldiers and police officers of the National Army and the Police from Brigade 30 in Cúcuta is carried out to different municipalities of the Catatumbo due to the crisis of violence unleashed at the sidelines of January of 2025. Troops of the National Army and the National Police deploy special groups in different areas of the Catatumbo.
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Regarding hiring, Decree 0107, indicates that, To guarantee food items, the
continuity of production in agricultural areas, crops, cattlethe access and use of irrigation systems and water resources, in The framework of the serious disturbance of public order in the territorial entities indicated in article 1 of Decree 0062 of 2025, during the time that the validity of the state of exception lasts (that is, 90 days, as of January 24), “Facing the Rural Development Agency to directly contract the acquisition of goods and services, logistics and everything related to the development of the support and incentives required by the sector, prior technical justification, with mixed economy societies, industrial companies and industrial companies and State commercials, peasant and/or agricultural associations of Law 2219 of 2022 and AGFEC organizations“
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This hiring is authorized, according to the text of the article, to Promote sustainability in agricultural areasof the “Supply chains, and the continuity of agricultural, forestry, livestock, fishing and aquaculture and agroindustrial chains, in order to generate conditions for stabilization, return and inclusion mainly of the small producers victims of forced displacement, in the process of Reincorporation to civil life, or linked to the National Comprehensive Replacement Plan“
Protection of productive chains and agri -food systems.
The measure seeks to guarantee food supply, the continuity of agricultural production, crops, livestock and “Access to natural resources oriented to agricultural production, Special Funds for Agricultural Development of Productive Chains with presence in the territorial entities indicated in Article 1 of Decree 0062 of 2025, They will allocate at least 2% of parafiscal contributions, included in the annual global budget of 2025for the purposes indicated in the law established by each contribution and in line with the provisions of article 31 of Law 101 of 1993 to the productive chains in the territorial entities sheltered by the declaration of State of internal shock“
Seed conservation and supply
The decree records that Agrosavia and the Ica will take urgent measures for the protection and custody of the propagation material, within thirty days of the declaration of state of exception and of the seeds of the affected rural and/or ethnic communities.
Also “They will distribute seeds, plant material and propagation material, will have seed production schemes, and technology and knowledge transfers that require peasants, small and medium producers, and their organizational forms, for food production, stability of agricultural, livestock, fishing, aquaculture, forestry and agro -industrial productive chains in the affected area”
The order indicates that, Within the two months of the declaration of the state of exception, the entities in question “They will have all public policy instruments, for the reintroduction of these seeds to the agri -food systems of the affected territories, as well as for the implementation of the described measures“In addition, the decree begins to govern, as of January 29, when it was published.
