Agricultural Partners
Published in El Universal
(Venezuela) on 14 April 2012
by Pedro E. Pinate (link to original)
(Venezuela) on 14 April 2012
by Pedro E. Pinate (link 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.
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.
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