the sun rises and it’s time that we
let’s raise to put coffee and water
of panela in the wood stove for
go out to cultivate and harvest part of the
pantry of the planet with our work
a coffee or a panela water are the
perfect companions for the start of
the day that in this case in boyacá
starts 4 degrees of temperature
there is nothing that can not be solved with
the company of a good ruana and the
necessary tools to start and
make the field
this wonderful place that leads
exquisite products to our tables
but we know so much about our field
Colombian
we know your current productivity
we know what is the process of our
food before they reach our
table
I used to study it to grow it
and explore each of its stages in
this process I have discovered very data
interesting for example that a
Farmer on average invests
9,500,000 for one hectare of onion
bighead cultivated a product
characteristic of my region to have
this same portion of cultivated land
it takes six to eight months of hard
work of three to four people
I ask you a question how much
they would charge for this work time if
we take it to an average salary in
Colombia
we would be talking about approximately
18 million pesos from the work of three
people
however we have not added a
fundamental component that
farmers do not work in offices or
in plants they work under the sun and under
the rain with very basic implements
like hoes palace with animals of
load with their own hands and their feet
added to this the experience and the
knowledge that his
parents and their
flights and the unique instinct to hear and
listen and understand the rhythms of
planet
Months passed and fortune will
he smiled at the peasant today they make their
product is ready to be sold
the rain was neither too much nor too little the sun
he behaved benevolently the diseases not
affected their cultivation and the land contributed
your best nutrients so that this
Onion would come white round and very
beautiful
the farmer picked up 800 bundles is
ready to be sold your product
imagine the illusion of this
farmer
however there are a couple of
financial concerns
remember the nine million 500 thousand
that had them at the beginning this
problem is still not solved
Many times the money comes from
bank loans from entities of the
state and of some neighbor with greater
capital and very rarely money
saved from the harvest before this
debt we have not added
the wage of the farmers that
they helped on land and transportation
to go to sell it but it does not matter is the
time to take our product with
great pride and bring him to the capital to
accompany the salads of the
exquisite dishes that the chef makes
They take our products to the
wornat palates
imagine the illusion of the farmer
it’s huge until it meets the
intermediaries people or organizations
responsible for buying the products at
lowest possible price for them to
see benefited
these people make the pride of
a great product becomes
concern and that a transaction is
make pride and simplicity so simple
effort of this farmer was not worth the
sorry for him is a sadness
Let’s take a moment in shoes
of a farmer from Boyacá Don Alfredo
Bío used the loan from the bank
for 10 million pesos to start their
culture
he asked his friend don second rich and
to his compadre don juan rodríguez who
will help to harvest your crop
he had to pay them 30 thousand pesos for
day and let’s not forget that you have to eat and
feed the family and cover some
basic living expenses
because remember that although the field
everything of something we have to live the
This farmer’s finances look like this
food expenses expenses of the
labor and transportation costs
crop expenses and expenses and expenses and
expenses and when you are going to sell your
products is faced with
intermediaries at the low prices of
the products to the oversupply and to the
machete or many of you are
they will ask but what is the machete or the
machete or is it when the farmer and the
buyer agree a price
the farmer lowers his products from
truck when they are already down
buyer lowers the price
many times without any justification
for the farmer he can not go back to
upload your products to the truck and
go home because that is not the
solution is the time to leave the
restlessness and move on to worry about taking
actions that transform this for sure
I’m not the first person to say it
It will not be the last either, I just hope not
be the only one working for
change but of something yes I’m sure
that if I want my community to continue with
their peasant practices and that the
sustenance of my people remain the
land and the cultivation of it
these conditions have to change and
for this change the technology plays a
fundamental role
the excuse can not be that there is no
the region in rural regions
internet or that there is no access to light and
much less the lack of knowledge of
the new technologies
this we have to turn it into
opportunities that leverage our
agricultural sector
in converting fair spaces that
our farmers have the
possibility of improving their conditions
of life
the current solution that I propose is
bought agro dot com a platform
web that eliminates intermediaries and
flip the whole equation eliminating
intermediaries contacting directly
the farmer with the buyer and
improving the income of our
farmers from 20 to 30 percent
plus
this platform currently hosts more
of 7,100 farmers nationwide
selling their products
currently more than 900 are sold
tons of annual food and
we allow monthly to improve
the income of the farmers that with
his work makes us take a
little concern
food shortage
let’s do a final math
we bought an onion from
average size to 400 pesos in a
Supermarket
however a farmer today
they paid that same onion to 100 pesos
means that 300 stayed in the
intermediation process us yes
we make the money reach the
farmer’s hands in very little
time and with a company you can
improve the technification of the fields
the optimization of its resources and the
improvement of their living conditions
I do not know about you but it seems to me
that this is the best solution as
new generation of young people
farmers
it is our obligation that we study
let’s go back to the field and strengthen
our agriculture
improve the quality conditions of
life of our parents who have given
so much for these lands
the field in our past and our
present and it has to be our future
thank you too
the laws
to
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