Análisis de la producción, exportación y políticas gubernamentales de cultivos permanentes en Colombia: casos de los cultivos de café, plátano, caña de azúcar y yuca.

Abstract

The main objective of this document is to show policy recommendations for the greater use of permanent crop production for both domestic and foreign market supply. Specifically, the products with the highest share of production for 2018 were analyzed: Coffee, bananas, sugar cane, and cassava; coffee was chosen because it is a reference for production at the national level and is considered a traditional export product. To this end, production conditions were analyzed, emphasizing the variables of area harvested, production and yield between 2014 and 2018 and the departments with the highest production and performance during the study period were shown, in turn, an analysis of the commercial dynamics that these products have presented in the commercial relationship of the country with the rest of the world, emphasizing imports, exports, trade balance and application of the revealed comparative advantage index for the chosen crops; then the main policies are described government support to the sector among which the financing programs, agricultural insurance, science, technology and innovation, infrastructure, productivity and education stood out, finally the conclusions and recommendations resulting from the research carried out were made known.