Building Productive Initiatives with San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa Catalina

San Andrés D. C., (@UPRAColombia, @claudialili76). In a joint action with the territory, UPRA carried out an articulation session to advance in rural agricultural planning, with the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, and the Department of Planning, of the government of San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa Catalina; as a result, a work agenda for 2024 was obtained and the definition of the main projects that can be developed between the Nation and the territory. ANT, AUNAP, DNP, and Dimar also participated in this busy work agenda.

 
 

Additionally, the Agricultural Territorial Kit was presented, containing information that UPRA prepared to support the departments in formulating the Departmental Development Plan.
 

 

Likewise, "we addressed the importance of updating the agricultural border to include the coastal marine dimension, with the certainty of being able to access incentives and programs from the national government; promoting efficient land and water use, and productive and social ordering of property, contributes to stabilizing, and reducing, the loss of ecosystems as well as conserving and protecting areas of ecological importance," said Adriana Pérez Orozco, technical advisor of UPRA.

 

On his part, Alexander Rodríguez, director of Efficient Land Use and Land Adaptation at UPRA, explained: "based on the territory's experience, we advanced in basic aspects to initiate a zoning of productive aptitude for agricultural purposes, from the productive alternatives prioritized by the department, during 2023, and to advance in the technical and collective construction of the national zoning of coastal artisanal marine fishing chains and traditional coconut."

 

Christian Harvey, Secretary of Agriculture and Fisheries of the Archipelago Department of San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa Catalina, on the importance for the department of updating the agricultural border and zoning artisanal fishing, commented: "I consider it an important advancement the agreement reached in defining agricultural alternatives for zoning, at the territorial level, during 2024: chili -baskit pepper*, sweet potato -swiit pitietah*, cassava -yuucah*, plantain -plaantin*, watermelon -milan*, and tentatively, coconut -cotnat*, breadfruit -bred fruut*, and pork -hag*, according to the availability of technical equipment."

 

And Fidel Londoño, leader of the Master Plans for Productive Conversion of UPRA, concluded: "The articulation between the Ministry of Agriculture, UPRA, Aunap, Dimar, and the Archipelago Department is key to guiding institutional offerings; especially to protect and defend the human right to adequate food and to promote all initiatives aimed at making Colombia an agri-food powerhouse, and to work, in an articulated manner, in the territory."
 

 

*In Creole ​