In recent months, the issue of fertilizers has become relevant as a result of multiple calls for attention from international organizations such as the FAO, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, for the country’s food security.
According to the BBC, the crisis is global and many of these inconveniences are due to the lack of containers and the lack of space to transport cargo from Asia to America. Added to this crisis is the increase in fertilizer prices that has greatly increased the cost of agricultural production.
“There is a crisis of chemical fertilizers, added to the issue of organic fertilization and Colombia has a way to solve the fertilizer problem by 50% if we were really making use of organic waste that reaches landfills that represent approximately 60% of the total waste produced in Latin America”, said Jorge Eliecer Luna, CEO of Eko Bojaca.
Eko Bojaca, a company specialized in the agricultural area and who, under the premise of strengthening the Colombian company, have organic fertilizers, produced by specialized technical teams and rebuild the soil, explained that it is possible to venture into a more profitable type of fertilizer and with greater beneficial for Colombian agriculture.
In the case of Colombia, the country imports barley, beans, peas, yellow corn and other essential grains, as well as raw materials for the production apparatus, all of which leads to higher costs throughout the production chain.
“Here in Colombia, everything is affected by the almost 40-day strike that the country experienced at the end of 2020, cardboard boxes are missing, delaying delivery logistics, with delays of two or three weeks,” said Javier Díaz, president of Analtex.
In this order of ideas, farmers in Colombia are having to incur high production costs generated by the crisis of Chemical fertilizers. The crisis that develops between Russia and Ukraine has generated the export of inputs such as fertilizers, Russia being a supplier of 13% of these products worldwide.
“We import more than 20% of our fertilizer needs from Russia and Belarus, the sanctions imposed on Russia make it much more complex to supply our country with products for agricultural production,” noted Jorge Bedoya, president of the Society of Farmers of Colombia (SAC).
Undoubtedly, the purchase by import of these products and the low domestic production of the country mean that farmers have no other option than to line up to use the imports of various products necessary to give results. It is therefore required that Colombians at all levels become aware so that they do not continue delivering the misnamed “garbage” or “organic waste” to sanitary landfills, that these be delivered responsibly to companies that, like Eko Bojaca, use them as part of the raw materials. raw materials to transform them into high-quality fertilizers.
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