Colombia's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development announced a 146 billion peso package of measures to protect the agricultural sector ahead of a possible El Niño arrival.
The strategy includes the Faia-Mitigation program with an investment of 110 billion pesos covering 421 municipalities. This fund aims to facilitate subsidized access to fertilizers and other inputs for small and medium producers.
An additional 36 billion pesos will promote bio-inputs, soil conditioners and organic fertilizers. The government will also roll out 10,000 rainwater harvesting and on-farm irrigation solutions in the Caribbean region.
Minister Martha Carvajalino said the measures were shared with agroclimatic roundtables. “We socialized our mitigation measures with all agroclimatic roundtables to harvest rainwater, recover soil vegetation cover and prepare to lessen the impacts of El Niño,” she noted.
Reports from Ideam, Dimar and Ungrd indicate neutral El Niño-Southern Oscillation conditions with clear signals of a transition toward the phenomenon in the second half of 2026 and early months of 2027.
