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Farmers in southwest and central Colombia agree to lift strike
http://colombiareports.co/farmers-southwest-central-colombia-agree-lift-strike/Farmers from three departments in the southwest and center of Colombia announced on Saturday that they will end a strike that has effectively shut down parts of the South American country for almost three weeks.
The strikers signed an agreement with Colombia’s new Interior Minister, Aurelio Iragorri, in which the government vows to improves farmers’ access to credit, lower prices of supplies, and reiterates its intention to limit food imports from other Latin American countries and freeze a controversial law banning the use of self-grown, non-certified seeds.
Additionally, the government and the regional farmers agreed to involve farmers’ organizations in the adapting of existing and the development of new policies that are part of a so-called Program for the Reactivation of the National Agriculture.
The struck deal was not made with the national strike organizers, who the government accused of having a broader political agenda, but with the regional organizations of strikes in the departments of Boyaca, Nariño and Cundinamarca.
http://colombiareports.co/farmers-southwest-central-colombia-agree-lift-strike/