In order to implement productive projects of traditional and creole crops, which respect biodiversity and local peasant practices, the Victims’ Unit delivered tools and agricultural supplies.
“It is a partial delivery of a restitution measure that benefits 100 families of this subject. They are inputs to strengthen the productive and organizational capacity of this community”, said the director of the Victims Unit in Bolívar and San Andrés, Miledy Galeano Paz.
These communities located in the PDET municipality of María La Baja (Bolívar), work hand in hand with the Victims Unit and the support of the Mayor’s Office, to promote and recover the planting of crops for the benefit of the community.
“We guarantee technical assistance, through an agronomist and an agricultural technician, for a minimum of 6 months. For next year, 100 more families will have the same benefit, with the commitment to help, so that the favored farmers have a service that can allow them a guaranteed food security”, said the director of Unidad Municipal de Asistencia Técnica Agropecuaria (UMATA), Domingo Padilla.
The delivery strengthens the economy and also the peasant associations that are part of the Subject.
“This represents the possibility of being able to develop the productive units that we have in progress and the projection that we have of these communities, so that in the future we can have an undertaking that allows us to improve our quality of life”, said Sofía Carrasquilla, member of the committee impulse.
For her part, Diana Gómez, community leader, highlighted: “It is a great benefit, since these families will be able to better develop their work in the field, thanks to the tools provided by the Victims Unit”, she said.
This action is complementary to deliveries, consultancies and projects that have been impacting the population for agricultural development, since the implementation of the Comprehensive Collective Repair Plan (PIRC), highlighting the delivery of a truck for the commercialization of products and the projects carried out by the Ministry of Labor, which are executed by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) under two lines of investment, the cultivation of tilapia and the sowing of cassava and corn.
This subject of collective reparation is made up of the townships of San José de Playón and Arroyo Grande, and the villages of Palo Altico, Sucesión, Mundo Nuevo, Cayeco, Nuevo Retén, Nueva Esperanza, Cucal and Palma de Vino.
(FIN/PDC/CJF/AEB)
