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Calendar 6/6/2024

UPRA Works on Agrologistics Plans to Improve Regional and National Competitiveness

La UPRA trabaja en los planes de agrologística para mejorar la competitividad regional y nacional

In Colombia, 71% of rural areas within the agricultural frontier are more than three hours away from major cities.​​ 

Bogotá D. C., (@UPRAColombia, @claudialili76). With the aim of improving competitiveness in the agricultural sector, the Rural Agricultural Planning Unit (UPRA) is working on the formulation of departmental agrologistics plans. Currently, a national plan has been formulated, as well as two departmental plans for Meta and Huila. 

Dora Inés Rey Martínez, Technical Director of Social Land Use Planning and Rural Land Markets at UPRA, stated that "in agrologistics, we consolidate the identification of productive alternatives, the identification of production costs, the work done on zoning aptitudes, and there we collect and analyze how, in the logistics chain of the different production systems, this chain can be improved, whether in the production phase, in the generation of added value, in transformation, commercialization, or the final disposition of agricultural products to the consumer." 

Camilo Correa, a UPRA collaborator, indicated that the agrologistics plans "generate guidelines to ensure traceability in the handling of cargo, information, and money in these supply chains, and generate policies and projects to improve the efficiency of all these processes." 

One of the concerns is that in Colombia, 71% of rural areas within the national agricultural frontier are more than three hours away from major cities, which increases production costs and the final price of products for consumers. 

The formulated agrologistics plans have four main thematic areas: 

  • Institutional and regulatory framework 

  • Human, social, and business capital 

  • Infrastructure and services 

  • Information technologies 

Correa specified: "the thematic area of information technologies involves the coverage of internet and telephone services, which in rural areas is especially relevant to the departments; for example, the traceability of a specific cargo that leaves a particular department." 


 

Currently, UPRA is working on the formulation of the Agrologistics Plan for La Guajira and is supporting other departments in the formulation of these plans.
 
 
Additionally, the entity has been working on the Collaborative Network of Agricultural Infrastructure (RECIA), which, through the participation of individuals, companies, and institutions, seeks to promote the individual and collective development of the supply chain in the Colombian countryside, making visible the infrastructure that provides services to the agricultural sector.

It is important to highlight that RECIA, during its first phase, achieved 217 registrations in 16 departments, which will allow progress in the consolidation of information related to logistics service infrastructures, services and machinery for production, production inputs, transformation, storage and preparation, and finally, commercialization.