Identificación de un mecanismo de estabilización de precios y/o fomento para el sector de la mora en Colombia

Abstract

Protectionist mechanisms in Colombia have been focused on large value chains that have technological resources, a significant extension of land and government support to commercialize the products, this occurs, through a series of tariff agreements, a creation of funds that are in charge of to safeguard the interests of producers and an optimal and efficient price stabilization mechanism, the objective of which is to protect the price of the national product with respect to variations in international prices. To identify the ideal instrument to stabilize the price of blackberry, it is necessary to analyze what variables have been used by developed countries, Latin America and Colombian production chains. When reviewing the literature in developed countries, it is noted that parafiscal funds are important when the sectors are united and there is an administrative hierarchy that is hand in hand with the governments of the day to facilitate investment in development and innovation, in addition to have Max and Min bands that facilitate the coverage of agricultural prices. One of the problems presented by blackberries is fragility, this is due to the fact that 30% of the harvest is damaged either by pests, in transport to collection centers, unloading processes or selecting the product, this generates other series of repercussions since the producer will incur losses before marketing his good, for which the investment is minimal; Another barrier that arises is the distance between departments, since the wholesale centers are the ones that distribute and set the prices of the products and since they are so far from each other, the price variation between departments is higher, since there is no It has no system that guarantees a balance in the prices of the whole country, which causes greater uncertainty when it comes to marketing since each department or in several cases each city sets the price to suit it. Therefore, it can be pointed out that the default in Colombia needs strong government support as well as an innovation in the control of prices in the sector, in this way the possibility of proposing scenarios where a price stabilization mechanism can grant it the union trust in long-term investment, competitiveness, technological development and immersion in the international market and this in turn will positively influence the solution of problems such as loss of product in transport, price instability, lack of investment in the sector and execution of administrative plans in the different wholesale centers. Therefore, this text is in charge of making a proposal for a price stabilization instrument in arrears, which is a highly competitive sector, but undervalued by the fruit and vegetable union. This will be done through a socioeconomic characterization of the fruit sector, which generally provides data about the returns of value chains and opens the way to deepen the blackberry sector and analyze its competitiveness and productivity in the different departments. from the country; In this way, it will be possible to offer a prospect that makes it possible to show that the price stabilization mechanism is an alternative for the improvement and contribution of the competitiveness and productivity of the blackberry sector.