SECTION C: ENGINEERING
The high volumes of corn imports that are reported annually for Colombia place it in seventh place worldwide in this business year, causing high dependence on international markets that can be easily altered by global events such as the one that occurred due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The importance of corn as a raw material and as a vital food for the Colombian family basket justifies great regulatory, political, institutional and technical efforts in search of increasing in a competitive and sustainable way the more than 393,000 hectares reported in 2019 and the yields in the traditional and technified production systems that range between 2.3 t.ha-1 and 5.4 t.ha-1 respectively. Currently, in Colombia multiple institutions of a trade union, national and even international offer technologies that allow for production models for the various existing socioeconomic contexts, however, finding new technological developments in terms of: efficient use of natural resources to exploit competitive advantages and new offers of planting materials for both varieties and hybrids, have become one of the main lines of work to meet the transversal technological demands in the country. Likewise, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, as head of the agricultural sector, leads the formulation and execution of programs and/or projects that leverage the integration of the corn chain and its growth or resurgence to reduce imports and achieve autonomy of this species for Colombia.
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