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Peasant reserve zones are considered colonization zones predominantly consisting of vacant lands with special agroecological, socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental characteristics that respond to a specific form of peasant identity. They aim to promote Comprehensive Rural Reform and contribute to territorial planning through participatory, negotiated, and balanced alternatives between peasant, family, community economies, and the environment. These zones have the primary function of closing the agricultural frontier and can encompass areas outside the agricultural frontier, as long as land use regimes, as outlined in their respective sustainable development plans, are respected.
Within the system, the integration of different information sources is considered to complement and contribute to thematic coverage with agricultural products representing the sector at various territorial levels.
UPRA has a team of professionals that provides municipalities with the necessary technical support to resolve concerns and issues that may arise in the use of the EVA web application. Through the helpdesk, municipalities can receive support from the assigned professional; contact is recommended at the email mesadeayudaEVA@upra.gov.co.
The areas of commercial forest plantations are registered with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR) and the Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA).
Pasture and forest coverages are determined through the integration of other sources of information, such as the Land Cover Map, Corine Land Cover methodology adapted for Colombia, scale 1:100,000, and the agricultural frontier. However, the inclusion of a module for the registration of pastures and forages is not ruled out.
The tracking is done for the planted areas, regardless of the harvest semester. It only needs to be considered whether the surface was harvested entirely or partially.
Flower production is measured by counting the number of stems, converting it to kilograms depending on the weight per stem of the flower or forage species, and then converting the volume into tons.
Information on backyard animals, such as poultry and pigs, and other livestock species, is obtained from other sources, for example, the ICA and the National Aquaculture and Fisheries Authority (Aunap).
Slaughter is only registered in municipalities where a legal processing plant exists.
It is the function of UPRA to guide the formulation and execution of public policies for the planning of productive and rural property planning to promote efficient land use for rural agricultural development with a territorial focus.
The vegetative period of each municipality's crops should be observed to verify if they are in development or in production.
Consult in the Information System for Rural Agricultural Planning UPRA.
The municipality will be affected since it will lack strategic information, and the system will have to undergo a supplementation process with other national and departmental sources.
The purpose of the UPRA Administrative Procedure is to obtain information on the orientation of land management policies for agricultural uses and the guidelines, criteria, and instruments to consider in the rural land planning and efficient use for the formulation of the Territorial and Development Plan of a territorial entity. It also evaluates public policies in these matters in the Colombian territory.
Given that Law 1551 of 2012 states that municipalities must consider the guidelines and criteria generated by UPRA for the formulation of their development and territorial planning plans, national-level guidelines were formulated. These have a general character to guide rural territory management and can be taken into account by all municipalities in the country.
Municipalities, as primary generators of information, are responsible for making necessary adjustments and updates at the municipal level of the EVA, considering technical supports and documentation supporting this process.
Semi-annual and annual crops are transient, meaning they generate a single harvest; the only difference lies in the vegetative period.
