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Calendar 12/3/2024

UPRA to Work on Formulating the Departmental Irrigation Plan and the Agro-Logistics Plan of Bolívar

UPRA trabajará en la formulación del Plan Departamental de Riego y el Plan de Agrologística de Bolívar
The Rural Agricultural Planning Unit (UPRA) met with the Department of Agriculture of Bolívar to establish a work agenda for the next four years.

Bogotá D. C., (@UPRAColombia, @claudialili76). As a result of a meeting between UPRA, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, and the Department of Planning of Bolívar, it was agreed to work together on updating the agricultural border of the department and on developing both the Departmental Irrigation Plan and the Agro-Logistics Plan of Bolívar.
 
Dora Inés Rey Martínez, Technical Director of Social Property Ordering and Rural Land Market of UPRA, indicated that, between the Department of Planning and UPRA, it was determined to "provide technical assistance in the formulation of the Departmental Development Plan and also to review the update of territorial planning schemes of the municipalities of the department."
 
Meanwhile, with the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, discussions began on a work agenda to advance the review of the agricultural border of the department and to develop technical studies of land suitability zoning for productive alternatives prioritized by the government.
 
"It will also work on the formulation of a Departmental Irrigation Plan and an Agro-Logistics Plan, which would have a regional vision for the Caribbean Coast. Likewise, it was agreed to advance in the survey of agricultural sector infrastructure to feed the RECIA application," added the technical director.
 
The Departmental Irrigation Plan has a program of actions that responds to the needs of building and implementing the vision of land suitability in irrigation planning, with the purpose of overcoming the obstacles faced by this component of agricultural policy.
 
The Agro-Logistics Plan is an agricultural planning tool that allows working on agricultural supply chains from the analysis of logistical processes, and flows of goods, money, information, emissions, and others along these chains, as well as the actors involved and the interactions between them, through the thematic axes present in each link of the chain.
 
Meanwhile, the Collaborative Agricultural Infrastructure Network (RECIA) is a platform that integrates agricultural extensionists and where different projects, especially in the agricultural sector, are socialized.
 
In turn, the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development of Bolívar, Gonzalo Tirado, concluded: "the meeting with UPRA was very positive; we learned about the institutional offer and all the technical support they can provide us. We hope to work together and move forward with all the proposals that were raised."
 
Finally, UPRA and the Department of Agriculture of Bolívar established a work schedule in which they will advance in the coming weeks to begin formulating each of the proposed plans.