Colombia: Post-Conflict Colombia Seeks to Become Agricultural Powerhouse

Jul 27, 2017 | Oscar Medina, Bloomberg
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Colombia is seeking to reinvent itself as a major agricultural powerhouse as the demobilization of thousands of guerrilla fighters opens up former war zones for development. As output of oil, the nation’s biggest export, drops amid dwindling reserves, the country is eyeing Brazilian-style agribusiness projects producing avocados, pineapples and timber, among other cash crops. The Andean nation, which is nearly twice as big as France, is currently using only about a third of its available agricultural land, according to Felipe Fonseca, the head of the Unit for Rural Agricultural Planning or UPRA.