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As a result from performance evaluations carried by the government , the corporation has been assigned to accomplish duties such as system revision of technical upgrades to be run by the agriculture ministry . The institution has its own labs offering research-derived services ; future plans include equipment acquisition for genetics and both plant and animal genomics .
“ We support TOT , so projects are handed directly to regional trade unions and technical assistance corps , thus increasing farming competitiveness ,” says Albornoz .
Competitive differentiation within domestic production The corporation ’ s differentiators are delimited by their top priorities : assisting in improvements for stockbreeding activity , and reaching international standards in Colombia ’ s farming variations . Corpoica has strengthened its alert systems and agro-climatic management to assist Colombia in extreme situations such as droughts and floods , as it happened with the “ El Niño ” phenomenon ,
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“ We ’ ve earned the government ’ s and the people ’ s trust , since they can see the need for our institution and the benefits derived from it ”
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