La Orinoquia already has its own development plan ready

Asorinoquia presented to the Government the ‘Orinoquia Mission’, an initiative to articulate the efforts of the public and private sectors, to jointly convert the four departments that comprise it into leaders of agricultural production and environmental protection, contributing to the strengthening of the rural economy and the improvement of the quality of life of the population.

Indeed, the Mission of the Business Association for the Development of the Orinoquia, Asorinoquia, contemplates the commitment of the businessmen of the region to continue and expand their projects, increase their own investments and attract new investors, national and foreign, continue improving the quality of life of the communities, to be relevant actors in ‘total peace’ and in the economic and social development of the country.

According to the director of the Association, Clara Leticia Serrano: “Orinoquia Mission intends to be a road map with specific goals, action plan, schedule, measurement indicators and responsible parties to significantly increase food production to achieve food sovereignty, promote policies that favor the protection and conservation of ecosystems, and improve the quality of life of Colombians”.

The Mission contemplates 12 strategic axes around which the management of the public sector and the private sector should be articulated.vadeither: strengthening of the peasant economy; well-being of the population; citizen and legal security; land for all; increase in agricultural productivity; sustainable and regenerative livestock; animal protein chain; forest clusters; ecotourism; increase in exports; infrastructure, and energy transition.

But Asorinoquia has not stayed with the document and has already brought it to Bogotá: it has been presented to the National Planning Department, the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Ministry of Finance, to advance in establish the necessary public-private alliances duly articulated with the Territorial Pacts.

Now the document will be taken before the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development and the Presidency of the Republic. The people of the four departments of Asorinoquia (Arauca, Casanare, Meta and Vichada) They do not want to leave the study on a shelf, they want to put it into practice and seek the support of the Government in the task of being a region with greater productivity.

Not in vain they add an area of ​​254,335 km2, equivalent to 22% of the national territory. In 2022, the region produced approximately 4 million tons of food, enough food to feed the entire population of Bogotá for one year and three months. In the Orinoquia they are cultivated: oil palm, rice, corn, soybean, banana, coffee, cassava, orange, lemon, passion fruit, rubber, watermelon, pineapple, avocado, papaya, cane, cocoa and cashew, among other crops.

Nearly 46% of the territory of the Orinoquia is devoted to livestock, land that could be used more efficiently to increase significant food production to achieve food sovereignty.

Currently, 19 private companies and organizations of different sizes and economic activities are part of the project. Its activities are concentrated on three fronts: infrastructure, environment and social welfare.

By 2030, the Association hopes to turn Orinoquia into the country’s leading region in sustainable agro-industrial production and environmental protection, with social inclusion and associative models that strengthen the peasant economy and improve the quality of life of the population of the departments that make up the Orinoquia.

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