Agreement seeks to boost agricultural exports in Atlantico, Colombia

The Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario-ICA and the Gobernación del Atlántico are preparing a framework agreement with the firm objective of boosting the department's agricultural sector and opening its way to international markets. As reported by the local newspaper El Heraldo, Pedro David Barrios, ICA sectional manager in the Atlantic indicated that, “we have points in common with the Department's Development Plan, that is why we are going to strengthen good livestock and agricultural practices, provision of services with mobilization guides in the municipalities and improve controls on animal mobilization ”. Barrios also highlighted that, "during the past year, the export of many agricultural products did not stop, and the ICA was an important support for the export of live cattle with the Barranquilla diagnostic laboratory, managing to process 29,000 samples for this activity." It is ...