Post by account_disabled on Feb 19, 2024 22:49:43 GMT -5
Temperatures in Colombia during January have been particularly high. In Bogotá, fires have broken out in the eastern hills, while in the Cundiboyacense savanna, farmers are already feeling the effects on their crops, raising fears that there may be a new inflationary peak in the food group. Food in the country became 30% more expensive between 2021 and the first quarter of 2023. Since then, the price correction and the recent wave of heat threaten to generate another inflationary peak in the products that are most produced and consumed in Colombia. . Jorge Enrique Bedoya, president of the Peasant Society of Colombia ( SACO ), assures that the situation is complex for all the country's crops, because although they have prepared for the drought season, temperatures are being dramatically high . "This water shortage could worsen in the coming years.
Two or three months, when we are waiting for the peak of heat, and it can affect prices, but without being clear how it will affect and under what El Asia Mobile Number List Niño in Colombia takes its toll on agricultural crops and inflation could riseconditions we will receive that peak, it is better not to speculate on how much they will be affected," he said. the union leader. Declining quality Although the dry season has not yet generated major shortage problems, there are effects on the quality of the products that are being marketed. Luis Hernando Ríos, market head of the Central de Abastos de Bogotá (Corabastos), maintains that prices have been very volatile because the quality of the products that arrive from the savanna is not the same from one day to the next. Some products, such as vegetables, are beginning to see their quality deteriorate in Colombia's main supply center, Corabastos. dfd Some products, such as vegetables, are beginning to see their quality deteriorate in Colombia's main supply center, Corabastos.
Bloomberg/Alejandro Cegarra) “In vegetables, such as chard, celery, cauliflower and cilantro mainly, we are seeing that there are some of very low quality, but it depends a lot on the day. That is why we are seeing strong price variations from one day to the next,” Ríos explained. Fruits such as mango, mandarin or banana, which arrive from Tolima and other departments where the high temperature is characterized, “they are arriving in Bogotá very dehydrated because it is where they are feeling the high temperature the most and where there are less water for crops,” says Ríos, who added that in anticipation of what may happen later with temperatures and water availability, some farmers “are accelerating the harvest process.
Two or three months, when we are waiting for the peak of heat, and it can affect prices, but without being clear how it will affect and under what El Asia Mobile Number List Niño in Colombia takes its toll on agricultural crops and inflation could riseconditions we will receive that peak, it is better not to speculate on how much they will be affected," he said. the union leader. Declining quality Although the dry season has not yet generated major shortage problems, there are effects on the quality of the products that are being marketed. Luis Hernando Ríos, market head of the Central de Abastos de Bogotá (Corabastos), maintains that prices have been very volatile because the quality of the products that arrive from the savanna is not the same from one day to the next. Some products, such as vegetables, are beginning to see their quality deteriorate in Colombia's main supply center, Corabastos. dfd Some products, such as vegetables, are beginning to see their quality deteriorate in Colombia's main supply center, Corabastos.
Bloomberg/Alejandro Cegarra) “In vegetables, such as chard, celery, cauliflower and cilantro mainly, we are seeing that there are some of very low quality, but it depends a lot on the day. That is why we are seeing strong price variations from one day to the next,” Ríos explained. Fruits such as mango, mandarin or banana, which arrive from Tolima and other departments where the high temperature is characterized, “they are arriving in Bogotá very dehydrated because it is where they are feeling the high temperature the most and where there are less water for crops,” says Ríos, who added that in anticipation of what may happen later with temperatures and water availability, some farmers “are accelerating the harvest process.