Madam Director:
ECLAC estimates that 4.0 technologies are still little used in the region's agrifood sector, especially among small producers or family farmers. "Information about the availability of this type of technology is very scarce, there are no reliable cost/benefit analyses, and the digital skills of producers and technical staff are very limited," warns a report published in September.
At the local level, the study commissioned by the Foundation for Agrarian Innovation, part of the Ministry of Agriculture, is in the validation phase and will serve as the basis for drawing up the technological roadmap for the National Agro 4.0 Development Program.
I believe it is right to build a bridge to those small and medium-sized farmers who are far away from an area that will be a mandatory trend-setter in the coming years.
Those who do not join will run the risk of suffering heavy penalties in international markets that operate with increasingly sustainable and sustainable parameters in the face of climate change consequences such as water scarcity.
Without going any further, 184 communes in Atacama, Coquimbo, Valparaíso, Metropolitana, O'Higgins, Maule, Los Ríos and Los Lagos face this critical scenario in terms of access to water. In the medium term it will be impossible to produce and export without green practices.
Hector Pincheira | Financial Journal
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