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    Análisis de perspectivas de la cadena productiva del sector agrotextil sobre el cultivo de algodón en los Llanos Orientales de Colombia
    (Universidad EAFIT, 2023) Mantilla Salazar, Juan David; Botero Santos, Adolfo; Sanders, Arie
    In the 70s, the cultivation of cotton reached the second export crop in Colombia. This helped the strengthening in the following years of the textile industry consuming more than 100 thousand tons of cotton in 2005. Today, only 35% of the cotton needed to supply the industrial demand of around 40 thousand tons is planted in the country. To reverse this trend, the producers guild is planning to increase crops in the south eastern plains of Colombia: a region with enormous potential for agricultural production at scale but with very little history in cotton. This work compiles the opinion of experts from the cotton’s value chain with the intention of analyzing their perspectives on the viability of cotton cultivation in the eastern plains of Colombia. In general, to boost cultivation in the region, different strategies must be implemented over time. In the short term, coordinated work between actors in the production chain will be vital; in the medium term it will be necessary to strengthen technical assistance strategies to face difficulties of agronomic adaptation of the technological package; and in the long term, the region must have a production management plan so as not to depend on internal demand and thus take advantage of the benefits of economies of scale in crop production. Without detailing the risks and other difficulties discussed in the text, there is a general consensus among the experts regarding the possibility of drawing a long-term route to produce competitive, quality and even cotton with some added value for sustainable production in the eastern plains of Colombia.