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The Plight of Rice Farmers Who Cry Out for Help From the Government, Are Affected by Rains and Are Preparing a New Strike

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Producers of Huila, Tolima, Meta and Casanare say that current grain price has them on the verge of bankruptcy.
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Three families and 50 years of history fight to fill the Colombian table with rice: Murra, Roa and now the Aponte, dominate a market that sells billions The article The owners of the 3 companies that sell more rice in Colombia was originally published in Las2orillas. Copyrights Las2orillas.co

Although the protest is articulated from the Tolima, the mobilization is national in scope. Huila, Casanare, Meta, Arauca, Guaviare, Córdoba and Sucre. Just a few months after the uprising of the rice strike agreed in the Chicoral Agreement, rice producers in Colombia return to the streets. Today, mobilizations and road blockades are reactivated in different regions of the country, led by growers who denounce a critical situation in the rice sec…

The rice growers of the country again went to national strike on Monday, July 14. The contraband, imports and prices imposed by the miller duopsonio are breaking them without the government taking measures to prevent it and without even complying with the agreements reached in the previous strike. Between December 2024 and February 2025 the price received by rice growers per load of 125 kilos fell by about 20%. In the center of the country the p…

Producers of Huila, Tolima, Meta and Casanare say that current grain price has them on the verge of bankruptcy.

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El Tiempo broke the news in on Sunday, July 13, 2025.
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