Mass Protests in Colombia Disrupting Ag Trade
Recent mass protests throughout Colombia have disrupted the movement of goods and impeded bilateral agricultural trade, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service said in a June 8 report. The protests, which began in April in response to a…
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government tax reform bill, led to “major” losses for the country’s agricultural sector due to “road blockades and unrest,” USDA said. The issues are causing raw material shortages and damaging the country’s production and transport of food. USDA said that about 40 to 50 trucks of animal feed are reaching consumption centers from Colombia’s coastal seaport city of Buenaventura, down from the “normal daily requirement” of 250 trucks. Due to rising costs, the agency said, some shipments of feed grains are being diverted to other poultry and pork producing regions in Antioquia, Cundinamarca and Santander. USDA said U.S. agri-food companies that have invested in the Valle del Cauca region have “dramatically reduced operations.”