To day. V Senate of the Republic Commission : Public debate of the foreclose of 220 slaughterhouses or plants animal benefits

 V Senate of the Republic Commission  : debate of slaughterhouse or plants of animal benefits .

To day we have a debate of what is know in Colombia as political control which means that the government must explain positions on policies structured by the state in this occasion the foreclosure of several slaughterhouse that do not implement several upgrades required in order to be approve and Ok to operate  by the government ( environmental, health, agricultural, commerce )  this requires a strong participation of both the government (Central and municipalities) and  private sector ,from our side I see this the opportunity to implement high tech and eco efficiencies  that will result on savings and opportunities in commercialization of meat under more clean procedures and technologies.

Today on  V Senate  Commission with the Minister of Agriculture Aurelio Irragori

Sep 30 2016. The Water Tax Negotiation

Sep 30 2016. The Water Tax negotiation , after days of hard negotiations with the rice producers of center Colombia -Tolima dept, we had to come to an agreement in which the agricultural sector will pay a minimum fee for use of water , even do this economical instrument is both looking forward : 1.  the changing behavior and 2. the implementation of eco efficiency technologies, the economical objective cant no be accomplished due the impact on the rice producers , the complexity on the economical formula that drives the water tax make us to reevaluate some specific coefficient that no longer will help us to give a strong signal for changing behavior and implement eco efficiency technologies , therefore the agreement incorporates the will of the producers to gradually increase the water tax in 15 years, this will give them time to adopt technologies and being more efficient with the use of water simultaneously the rice producers will adopt technologies to be more efficient on use of water, regardless the economical signal presented by the mathematical formula the rice producer must adopt technologies and efficiency procedures due climate change 

Me , the viceminister , the director of the national environmental system , the rice producers representatives and irrigation distrritos 

Me talking with the Rice federation attorney.