The Nursery Trade Association in Colombia has built a connection of 600 participants in 15 regions of the country . In the “ new global context ” , Colombia has seen an increment in the use of live plants .
Organizations such as 7 Colinas , Flormacoop , Bromelias de Colombia , Piante and Plantas del Tambo , among others , stomach in 2016 the beginnings of the Association of Colombian Nurseries and Ornamental growers , Colviveros , an associative movement focused on seek the competitiveness of small nursery agriculturalist in Colombia . Colviveros fete its fourth day of remembrance of creation this calendar week , with important advances in the section of the production and commercialization of alive and cosmetic plant in Colombia , also positioning the sector as a active agentive role for rural exploitation in the rural area .
Jairo Cadavid , president of Colviveros , bespeak out that beyond a representative study , the approach of the organization , which already has more than 600 participant in 15 regions of the land , has focused on working for the corporate interest of its members , address two vital radio link for the sector : production and marketing .
For his part , Yefer Pulido , president of the Board of Directors of Colviveros , in turn manager of the most important wholesale live industrial plant market in Colombia , show that the employment of Colviveros has been decisive in make the section of live and ornamental plants seeable in the nation , and above all , to advance the tremendous socioeconomic wallop of a sphere on which more than 35,000 rural families count in Colombia .
The Colviveros agenda began in 2016 push initiatives such as the VAT exemption on sales of live plants as a strategy to advance usance and the formalization of baby’s room in Colombia . In the same way , within the regulatory theoretical account , the Trade Association has further paths with ICA , the Colombian phytosanitary agency , focused on the varietal renewal of the sphere and the socialization of the new norms for the registration of nurseries and the mobilization of plant stuff in the country . And more significantly , Colviveros get a whole raw dynamic that allowed to keep open , in the eye of the confinement situation engender by the pandemic , the yield and commercialization of live works in Colombia .
“ It has been 4 year of intense oeuvre , but beyond promoting and generating a greater relationship of our sphere with the Government , we are affirm formalisation initiatives , technical conference , nursery meetings and international missions that attempt to blow up the vision of the manufacturer ; as well as platforms such as ExpoPlantas and the First Digital Business Meeting , spaces that promote the production and service of the sector , sire new commercial-grade chance and highlight the body of work of the best producer in the land ” , adds Jairo Cadavid .
Four years is a very short period to realize the big dreams and opportunity for professionalization and growth for the Colombian nursery industry , both in the national market and in the setting of exports in which the section of springy flora in Colombia start to shine . For Colviveros , the importance of this first rise is free-base on the fact that in the midst of the current circumstances , the Colombian baby’s room has finish to be invisible and pocket-size rural producers are get a line and understanding that detached they are small , while united they set about to have a voice and get potent .
Finally , the president of Colviveros reported that live flora market place in Colombia has been very incontrovertible in recent months . " producer have live a incontrovertible commercial-grade trend , on behalf of a final consumer who , in the midst of confinement , has instruct to appreciate the contribution of unrecorded plants to their well - being " , he conclude .
For more information : ColviverosJairo Cadavid Ossa , PresidentEmail:[email protected]www.colviveros.org
