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Starting this Friday, and until 10 pm on this holiday Monday, you can support the small potato producers of Cundinamarca with your purchase.
This action is part of a strategy of accompaniment to the peasants of the department, intensified after the images of the crisis of the paperos in Boyacá became known in recent days.
“Cundinamarca is a good potato and that is why we are in all the entrance tolls to our department. In this festive bridge about 700,000 vehicles will enter and the invitation is that they buy, benefiting 1,000 producer families in the department. We want to sell 600 tons on this holiday bridge“, assured the governor of Cundinamarca, Nicolás García.
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These are the tolls at which you can buy potatoes directly from the farmers of Cundinamarca.
– Siberia toll street 80.
– Chusacá South car toll
– Casablanca-Via Ubaté toll
– Albarracín-Villapinzón toll
– Agro Industrial Center of the potato in VillaPinzón
– Los Andes toll
– El Roble toll, via Gachancipá
– Toll Boquerón, Chipaque, Cundinamarca
– Calle 13 toll
There, you can find:
Packages of 10 kilos to 10,000 pesos
Package of 50 kilos to 40,000 pesos
Charge at 70,000 pesos.
Potato sale at tolls in Cundinamarca
(Further: Are you worried about the crisis of potato growers? So you can help them)
Likewise, there will be additional actions to support producers for comprehensive care:
“But the work goes further. (There will be) an investment of 100,000 million pesos providing them with inputs, seeds, fertilizers, tractors and agricultural kits. Everything necessary so that their production is better, less expensive and can have a greater profit margin “, noted the Governor.
It is evaluated to extend the sale to the main squares of the main cities of Cundinamarca.
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The crisis also hit the producers of Cundinamarca
Citytv was at the first potato sale at the Los Andes tollbooth, on the Norte highway, and learned first-hand how the farmers of Cundinamarca also fared badly with their crops.
“The price of potatoes is quite critical. We have been in crisis for months. The superior pastusa potato has a price of 18,000 pesos per package and the truth is that today we are not even taking out production costs. We barely achieved the collection costs, that is, the payment of the worker, packaging and transportation. We are at a loss, “said Orlando, one of the producers. And he added: “We listened to the Government to produce the same so that the basket does not become more expensive, but we did not find an answer. We are only selling first-class potatoes, we are losing potatoes of smaller sizes. The call is for the country to buy Colombian potatoes. ”
The Secretary of Competitiveness and Economic Development of Cundinamarca, Juan Gabriel Ayala, agrees on this.
“They continued to produce, but the problem in part was low consumption. The closure of hotels, restaurants and schools affected them, generated that oversupply and the reduction of direct purchase. Today it is unfair to see how people have to sell under of production costs, which comes out to 35,000 pesos, but cargo sales are made for between 25,000 and 30,000 pesos.or tolls is a strategy to promote consumption, but we have been taking comprehensive actions and that should be in all links“said the Secretary and warned that there are also impacts on tomato and zucchini production.
In addition, he announced that actions like this are the beginning of good news. From now on, Cundinamarca is advancing an alliance with the District for the direct sale of Cundinamarca products in the district market places and, additionally, is preparing for the total launch of the Cundinamarca Commercial Agency, which would come into effect between December 2020 and the beginning from 2021.
BOGOTA
