Interviewed credits:
Eduardo Patiño – Peasant
Luceli Torres – Coordinator of Peasant Markets
Rafael González – Director of the UAEOS.
RPTV NEWS AGENCY team:
Journalist: Nicholas Amaya
Camera and Edition: John Reyes
BOGOTA COLOMBIA). Thursday, March 3, 2022 (RPTV NEWS AGENCY). One of the main problems in agriculture is the logistics and marketing of crops, which generates cost increases from the time the product leaves the farm until it reaches the supply centers. These inconveniences are more frequent in small families that have few fields of cultivation.
Today, small farmers in the country have decided to no longer depend on intermediaries and potentiate their markets 100%. Ensuring the sale of their crops and by the way improving their quality of life.
“The food sells well because they are products that are collected fresh and at good prices,” says Eduardo Patiño, a farmer from Boyacá who, along with other farmers, arrives weekly at the meeting point to sell their products at the Peasant Markets, located in the large cities.
“This has made farmers in general improve their quality of life and products, avoiding intermediaries, which was what had been overwhelming us,” highlights Luceli Torres, who coordinates the Farmers’ Markets.
Thanks to the Peasant Markets, these producers obtain all of their profits, which previously remained in the hands of the merchants. “It has given these farmers the opportunity to continue with their crops, making their products visible,” he added.
In the main squares where fresh produce arrives, the peasants themselves have managed to enhance their vegetables, fruits, cereals, honey and other production, thanks to this program, led by the Special Administrative Unit of Solidarity Organizations (UAEOS), an entity attached to the Ministry Labor, so that these small farmers can continue to live on their plots.
“The farmer produces on his land and we, with the ‘Faith in Colombia’ program, collect these products on their farms and bring them to the different cities that set up the Farmers’ Markets so that they can be distributed without intermediaries and fresh products reach the family market. ”, explained Rafael González, director of the UAEOS.
The strategy facilitates sales and is presented as an agile alternative to market the products harvested by peasants like Eduardo. “We liked coming to the Farmers’ Market because no matter what, you earn a little more, and that’s where we go.”
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