By Miguel Ángel Lacouture Arévalo - April 15, 2026 Sustainable Livestock Management Circles Transform Production in Southwestern Colombia Livestock farmers in Sucre demand commitments and propose a presidential debate in the department "The cadastre has ceased to be a technical instrument: today it is expanding the tax base, making production more expensive and pushing rural entrepreneurs out of the system, expelling them from the agricultural sector." Colombia is implementing, without substantive legislative debate, one of the most profound tax reforms against the agricultural sector. It was not presented as a structural law. It did not go through open discussion. It is being imposed through appraisals. The massive cadastral update driven by article 49 of Law 2294 of 2023 had a valid objective: to close the historical backlog of rural appraisals. But what was supposed to be gradual became an immediate, widespread, and regressive fiscal shock. Today, property tax increases of ...