Agribusiness

Colombia offers great opportunities for investment in the Agro-Industrial Sector because Colombia has extensive unexploited land as well as plentiful and accessible natural resources. Next, you will find several of the reasons why businesses will find opportunities in the Agro-Industrial Sector:

• The Agri industry sector is a great player in the national economy, generating 19,7 % of the employment, 19 % of the exports and 9,2 % of the PIB.
• A dynamic sector: in seven years the PIB increase 27 %, the cattle production 43 %, the agriculturalist 23 %, the sowed area 12 % and the performances 11 %. Additional, the foreign direct investment in the sector and the agricultural and agri industry exports became doubled
• The availability of water resources in Colombia is one of the highest in the World. With almost 45.402 cubic meters per capita of water a year, the country locates on the average in South America and over other regions as North America, Europe and Asia. To the interior of Latin America, the country possesses the major rate of annual rainfall (2.708 mm / year).
• According to the FAO, Colombia is in the 22 position between 223 countries, where it’s evaluated the potential of expansion of the agricultural area without affecting the natural forest area. This potential of growth is estimated in 12,7 million hectares.
• • Wide alternatives of agricultural production thanks to his astronomic position as a tropical country located in the equatorial zone, geographical characteristics with all kinds of soils and wide availability of resources.
• • Colombia the fourth country in Latin America with major proportion of lands under irrigation systems (25,2 %), overcoming the 3 principal agri industry producers (Brazil 4,4 %, Mexico 23,4 % and Argentina 4,6 %) the average of the region (18,3 %) and of the world (18,5 %).

In this section find specific information on the following sub-sectors:

• Biofuels
• Forestry