100,000 farmers in the field are already benefiting from selling without intermediaries

“Today we have been in government for 26 months and it is not a dream, it is not a longing, it is not an expectation: there are already 100,000 farmers in the countryside who are selling without intermediation through this scheme that we have called ‘Contract Agriculture’, Harvest and Sell ​​to the Fixed “said President Iván Duque during his speech at the Business Formalization Conference.

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The head of state said that, in the midst of the pandemic, the goal of the National Government is to end 2020 with 130,000 farmers from the field registered in ‘Contract Agriculture’, to advance and reach the goal of ending the government with 300,000 linked producers.

“This sector of small producers who join ‘Contract Agriculture’ is today enjoying the cheapest rate that Colombia has had to finance: DTF -1% and, believe me, Minister (of Agriculture and Rural Development), Rodolfo ZEA, there is no record in Colombia of such a low rate and we have it at the service of small producers in Colombia “, he stressed.

This strategy, which was announced in December 2018, seeks to solve agricultural marketing problems, connecting the food industry and marketers directly with producers.

The head of state served as a witness to new commercial formalization contracts between producers in the region, especially corn and cassava, which signed advance sale contracts with the Éxito stores, La Polar and Almidones de Sucre, reaching the program to 105,189 producers, of which 33% are women.

At the moment, fruit and vegetable producers (27%); coffee (22%); fishing (14%); cocoa (13%); as well as milk and derivatives (8%), they are the ones with the highest participation in the number of linked (105,189 producers).

According to the figures, between 2018 (December 7) and so far 2020 (November 6) Every day, on average, 148.1 producers are linked to ‘Contract Agriculture’ and 1,030 producers do so every week.

Producers from Antioquia, Santander and Cauca have achieved more sales

Although the ‘Contract Agriculture’ strategy has been present in the country’s 32 departments, those with the highest participation in the 105,189 producers who have closed businesses are: Antioquia (16%), Santander (9%), Cauca (7% ), as well as Putumayo and Nariño (each with 6%).

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Results of El Campo at a Click and the Business Conference

Due to the covid-19 situation, ‘Contract Farming’ was adapted to virtuality with the One Click Field strategy. There, growers can offer their harvests on more than 29 e-commerce platforms. To date, 10,147 new users have already been added.

In addition, since September the Business Days were reactivated. In total there have been five, involving 8,821 producers, who have business expectations of $ 35,000 million with 233 organizations.

Other figures for Contract Agriculture:

• 19,580 PDET producers.

• The goal of Contract Agriculture in 2020 is 130,000 producers

• The goal of Contract agriculture to end the Government of President Iván Duque is 300,000 producers.