Colombia slaps $940K fine on ‘cattle cartel’
Colombia will impose a $940,000 (COP2.7 billion) fine on the so-called “Cattle Cartel” for price fixing across the country, the country’s business intendent said Tuesday. The penalty is for livestock…
Colombia will impose a $940,000 (COP2.7 billion) fine on the so-called “Cattle Cartel” for price fixing across the country, the country’s business intendent said Tuesday. The penalty is for livestock…
Preparations are well underway for the week-long National Livestock Fair and beauty pageant beginning June 16 in Colombia’s northern state of Cordoba, Colombian media reported on Wednesday.
Colombian farmers have suffered this week after a severe drought destroyed crops in more than 20 municipalities around the capital city of Bogota. “We lost everything, chard, lettuce and spinach,…
Colombia’s Minister of Agriculture announced a $31 million plan Thursday to make animal husbandry more productive and competitive, Colombia’s W Radio reported. “The political instruments launched by the agricultural ministry…
A party atmosphere is taking over the northern Colombian city of Monteria this week, with the opening of the 35th Reinado Popular y Cultural de la Ganaderia – a festival…
Forty thousand square kilometers of the Colombian rainforest were lost between 2002 and 2007, according to a study by the Amazonian Institute of Scientific Investigation, reports Dinero. The Amazonian region…