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Calendar 11/4/2024

With the support of UPRA, Casanare directs efforts to become an agroindustrial powerhouse in Colombia

Con apoyo de la UPRA, Casanare orienta esfuerzos para ser una potencia agroindustrial en Colombia
Yopal, Casanare (@UPRAColombia, @claudialili76). With the presence as a guarantor of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Jhenifer Mojica Flórez, the Government of Casanare and the Rural Agricultural Planning Unit (UPRA) signed a memorandum of understanding to support the agricultural territorial planning of the department and strengthen the management of sectoral information and its articulation with the Agricultural Planning System of Casanare. 
  
In the words of the Governor of Casanare, César Ortiz Zorro, "with the support of the Ministry of Agriculture and its entities, Casanare will be an agroindustrial powerhouse in the country." The UPRA, as the guiding entity of public policy for territorial management for agricultural uses, will support the formulation of planning instruments required to achieve this goal. 
  
 
"The department of Casanare is interested in linking and implementing agricultural territorial planning, which includes productive, territorial, and social planning of rural property, as well as information management in these matters. To do this, it is expected to direct efforts and technical teams from the Government and UPRA for the joint elaboration of strategic inputs in favor of the agricultural sector," said Claudia Liliana Cortés López, general director of UPRA. 
 

The agreement includes: 
 

  1.  Support to formulate the Departmental Development Plan.
  2. Technical assistance in agricultural territorial planning for the department and its 19 municipalities.
  3. Update of the agricultural frontier for the Orinoquia.
  4. Aptitude zoning for the Orinoquia and edelivery and socialization of national aptitude zoning.
  5. Analysis of production costs for prioritized alternatives for the Orinoquia.
  6. Guidance to formulate the Important Agricultural World Heritage System (SIPAM) and support in the implementation of the Landscape Charter in the municipality of Paz de Ariporo.
  7. Training on the Information System for Rural Agricultural Planning (SIPRA).
  8. Support in the identification, characterization, and georeferencing of equipment, goods, and services of interest to the agricultural sector, within the framework of the Collaborative Agricultural Information Network (RECIA).   ​

"To make Colombia an agri-food powerhouse, it is essential for territories to have data and information on the agricultural sector that allows them to make the best decisions. That's why these agreements are important, in which UPRA supports the Agriculture Secretariats in the productive and social planning of rural agricultural territory," said the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Jhenifer Mojica Flórez. 
  
The signing of the memorandum of understanding took place within the framework of the event "Regional Coal-Sustainable Future, delivery of results of the Biocarbon Orinoquia Project", a commitment to the development of forest and livestock agri-food systems in the Orinoquia.