Agricultural Partners

Published in El Universal
(Venezuela) on 14 April 2012
by Pedro E. Pinate (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Marissa Joakim. Edited by Katya Abazajian.
We look in perspective at the agenda of bi-national agricultural cooperation.

On the importance of restarting the U.S.-Venezuelan agricultural cooperation, a relationship more convenient to the interests of both nations, the numbers and the agro-commercial balance speak for themselves. Knowing that historically the U.S.-Venezuelan agricultural cooperation worked and yielded results for both countries as friends and trading partners, we observe now the new circumstances of the ceaseless national protests for its full re-establishment.

There are more than enough reasons to once again resume the agenda of the U.S.-Venezuelan agricultural cooperation. The economic benefit for both nations goes beyond the social benefit for the best production, importation, and supply and demand of food, and helping rural development by stopping migration to the cities. Due to the enormous technological delay, such as the decline and the dismantlement of the productive infrastructure of equipment, and the disinvestment that took place in Venezuelan agriculture (including the agricultural industry and agro-commerce), there is an urgent need to modernize and adapt the Venezuelan agricultural sector to the competitive global world. For this, the American-Venezuelan agricultural cooperation offers the best possibilities to favorably impact the agricultural exchange between countries, and develop the potential exportation of agricultural goods to offer tropical products in the great market of the United States.

For all of this from the private sector, as much in the U.S. as in Venezuela, the businessmen of agricultural business and the technicians and professionals of agriculture and livestock farming look in perspective at the agenda of the bi-national agricultural cooperation. To adapt ourselves to compete and participate in free trade in both directions, the bi-national agricultural cooperation is crucial.


Sobre la importancia de reactivar la cooperación agrícola EEUU-Venezuela, a un nivel más conveniente a los intereses de ambas naciones, hablan por sí solas las cifras del intercambio y la balanza agrocomercial. Y siendo que históricamente la cooperación agrícola EEUU-Venezuela había funcionado y rendido frutos a ambos países amigos y socios comerciales, observamos aquí que las nuevas circunstancias del entorno nacional claman por su pleno restablecimiento.

Del porqué retomar la agenda de la cooperación agrícola binacional EEUU-Venezuela sobran las razones. Además del beneficio económico a ambas naciones, trasciende el beneficio social, por la mayor producción, importación, oferta y consumo de alimentos, como por el desarrollo rural y el cese del abandono del campo y la migración a las ciudades. Debido al enorme atraso tecnológico como al deterioro y desmantelamiento de la infraestructura productiva, del equipamiento y por la desinversión sucedida en el agro venezolano, incluyendo la agroindustria y el agrocomercio, es urgente la necesidad de modernizar y adecuar al sector agrícola venezolano al mundo global competitivo. Para ello la cooperación agrícola EEUU-Venezuela ofrece las mejores posibilidades de impactar favorablemente el intercambio agrocomercial entre países, y desarrollando la potencialidad agroexportadora de Venezuela para la oferta de productos tropicales al gran mercado de EEUU.

Por todo esto desde el sector privado, tanto en EEUU como en Venezuela, los empresarios del agronegocio y los técnicos y profesionales de la agricultura y la ganadería, miramos en perspectiva la agenda de la cooperación agrícola binacional. Para adecuarnos a competir y participar del libre comercio en ambos sentidos, la cooperación agrícola binacional es crucial.
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