BY
EDGAR
TATIS WAR
With the purpose of betting on new educational and productive dynamics with a commitment to sustainable development based on territorial planning, the University of Magdalena yesterday signed an alliance with the banana union through the foundations that belong to the Agrovid group with a presence in the Magdalena Banana Zone and the departments of La Guajira and Cesar.
The rector Pablo Vera Salazar thanked the representatives of the foundations and associations of banana producers for the trust placed in the Alma Mater and highlighted the presence among the attendees who went to the Playa Grande auditorium of the Mar Caribe building, of journalists from different media of communication that will be able to massify the purposes of the alliance whose main axis is the solution of water supply so that the territory is viable.
“Here at the institution we have all our capabilities, human talents, professionals and researchers so that we can move from the problem to the solution because what we sow now will be the harvest and the best fruits to collect in the next 10 and 20 years.”
He was also categorical in stating that the commitment to social responsibility is an ethical issue because it goes beyond a reputational issue or to make it look pretty but rather to confirm that there are no viable companies in unviable communities and there are no viable universities if there are no business communities.
“Every time the social-economic dynamic is strengthened in the territory, new opportunities are created for young people who are here in training because if there are no more educational infrastructures in the Banana Zone, in the municipalities of Magdalena or in the rural areas of Santa Marta, where are our new graduates in mathematics, technology, natural sciences, etc. going to be inserted? If there is no harmonious development of the territory to create new companies that are competitive, then where are our new engineers going to be inserted, what roads are they going to build, if this dynamic is not encouraged,” the rector asked.
He then warned that it is necessary to look for synergies because the country is not viable if it continues in a confrontation between the public and the private, between the local and the national “because every time the state fragments, crime benefits. We have experienced it here in the territory, if we are fragmented between the city and the department or in the same city we are divided between one and the other because we would be generating more gaps. That is why the Talento Magdalena program was born to help close these gaps in access to public higher education,” emphasized Vera Salazar.
In turn, the representative of the Agrovid group Elkin Valencia, specified that thanks to the alliance with the University of Magdalena, work will be done to strengthen agriculture as a fundamental pillar in the cohesion of the social fabric hand in hand with the banana foundations with a focus on peasant education and management of agroindustrial surpluses typical of banana activity.
He assured that work will be done under a regenerative development approach where education plays a fundamental role without neglecting solutions to problems such as housing improvement, infrastructure works for small aqueducts, irrigation and drainage systems, the energy system, Likewise, support the community action boards in managing their needs.
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