Progress with the governance of Nariño in the rural agricultural planning of the department.

Approximately 28% of its territory is dedicated to family agriculture.
 

 

Pasto, Nariño (@UPRAColombia, @claudialili76). From Pasto, the Rural Agricultural Planning Unit (UPRA) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Nariño government carried out a rural agricultural planning session for the department, seeking to promote initiatives between the nation and the territory that benefit farmers, producers, and fishermen, and protect sustainable food production in the region.
 

 

Among the main joint projects are: support in formulating the Departmental Development Plan; technical assistance in agricultural land planning; updating of the agricultural border for the Pacific region; collective construction of aptitude zoning, in the Pacific region, for traditional coconut and coastal artisanal maritime fishing, and the delivery and socialization of national aptitude zoning.
 

 

Likewise, with Nariño, we will collectively build the Master Plan for the Productive Conversion of potatoes: "an exercise in territorializing the Potato POP, where we will identify specific actions in the territory that allow us to address issues that facilitate improvement, in terms of sustainability, competitiveness, and performance, of this productive chain," explained Octavio Lancheros, UPRA expert and technical liaison with the Nariño department.

 

"We are articulating in the construction of the 2024-2027 Departmental Development Plan, in the agricultural planning of Nariño, in technical support and using the information produced, collected, and governed by the UPRA about the realities of the Colombian countryside," said Hanser Benavides, Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development of Nariño.
 

 

On his part, Alexander Rodríguez Romero, technical director of Efficient Land Use and Land Adaptation at UPRA, added: "Similarly, from UPRA, we provide technical support to the department on the Information System for Agricultural Rural Planning, SIPRA, and support in the identification, characterization, and georeferencing of equipment, goods, and services of interest to the agricultural sector (RECIA); instruments that will allow us to work from the territory to make Colombia a agri-food powerhouse."

 

Finally, "we deliver the Agricultural Territorial Kit, an initiative of the Ministry of Agriculture and UPRA so that departments, municipalities, and districts have a proposal of guidelines that allows new leaders to make informed decisions and guarantee adequate land management," concluded Adrián Smith Manrique, UPRA expert.
 

 

Nariño is a department with agricultural vocation, where the suitability of the soils for products such as onion, plantain, potato, panela cane, and cocoa stands out; at the livestock level, the poultry, pork, cattle sectors, and artisanal fishing stand out.

 

The articulation between the Ministry of Agriculture, UPRA, and the Government of Nariño is key to protecting and defending the human right to adequate food, and promoting all initiatives that seek to make Colombia an agri-food powerhouse.