A new edition of the Farmers' Markets takes place this weekend in nine strategic points in the Colombian capital. This holiday Monday, March 21, the inhabitants of Bogotá will be able to buy fresh and healthy products at the best prices, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
This will be the point where citizens will have access to this space that brings to the city the best of peasant production from rural areas and surrounding the capital:
-Simon Bolivar Park: entry 4, for race 60. (From 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.)
The initiative, developed in partnership with the Government of Cundinamarca, seeks to create a showcase so that farmers in the central region can offer the best products from the countryside and improve their income.
“Farmers' markets are an initiative to improve the efficiencies of production and marketing of agricultural products, with three purposes: that farmers earn more, that when we buy we save and that we have better nutrition in Bogotá,” the former Secretary of Development said during the opening of the program economic, Carolina Durán.
It should be said that since 2020, the strategy has sought to promote agro-ecological production, the rescue of ancestral products, boost the peasant economy, promote productive linkages by accessing new market niches, promoting regional integration, associativity and the exchange of cultural knowledge and ancestral.
This is how the initiative promotes the availability and supply of healthy food in terms of quality, care and variety. In addition, it has become a showcase of opportunities for farmers and entrepreneurs to market their products at a good price and without intermediaries. In addition, it consolidates issues of financial inclusion through digital transformation and promotes the use of new technologies that contribute to mitigating the transmission of contagion, as well as strengthening food security in the Bogotá-Region.
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“During 2020, through the Farmers' Markets, we managed to benefit 704 producers and 92 associations. The goal this year is to double that impact and benefit 1,600 producers and 180 associations, as well as to move from sales levels of 2,500 million pesos to 7 billion pesos,” said Durán.
In parallel with the development of the Farmers' Markets in Bogotá, merchants from the District Market Squares (Las Ferias, La Concordia, La Perseverancia, Carlos E. Restrepo and Trinidad Galán) brought their best products, this Sunday, March 20, to the Neusa Reservoir, where they offered their goods from 8.00 in the morning until 4:00 in the afternoon.
The event was organized by the Regional Autonomous Corporation of Cundinamarca — CAR and Institute for Social Economy — IPES, and was also held in response to the commemoration of Women's Month, as well as Men's Day.
The Neusa Reservoir, located in the eastern mountain range, 67 kilometers northwest of La Sabana de Bogotá, more precisely between the municipalities of Cogua and Tausa, is recognized as a natural paradise, where visitors can practice fishing, water sports, sailing and mountain biking.
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