During this marathon they will deliver 7,862.69 hectares in Antioquia, Córdoba, Cesar, Huila, La Guajira, Caquetá, Meta, Cundinamarca and Tolima.
Peasants from the municipalities of Ayapel and Pueblo Nuevo, in the department of Córdoba, were the first beneficiaries of the great marathon of Agrarian Reform that the National Government began through the Ministry of Agriculture and the National Land Agency this Thursday in the country. .
In Ayapel they delivered more than 1,300 hectares of land and in Pueblo Nuevo 120 of the almost 8 thousand hectares purchased to be delivered to the country’s peasantry.
With this delivery, the largest to date, Gustavo Petro’s government exceeds 100 thousand hectares of land purchased to deliver to rural communities, farmers and ethnic communities that need the land to grow food, mainly.
“This day is very important for us, because in 10 departments of the country there are 574 peasant families that receive land from the Agrarian Reform. This reform is not an invention, nor a utopia, much less a whim of President Gustavo Petro. It is not a stubbornness of mine, nor of the director of the National Land Agency, nor of the 16 thousand people who are working for Colombia’s agriculture. This Reform belongs to the peasantry and more than ever it has to be done,” said Felipe Harman, director of the National Land Agency.
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