Abstract
The low productivity of the agricultural sector and the low levels of technology adoption are among the main obstacles for Colombia to be more competitive. To change this, the national competitiveness and productivity policy was in force between 2008 and 2016, through the document Conpes3527. The objective of this work was to show the successes and failures of the first strategic axis of Conpes, through the identification of the advance of competitiveness in the horticultural subsector, using the bulb onion in Cundinamarca as a case study, through a three-step methodology: first, the concept of systemic competitiveness was used to identify the level of analysis at which the work was carried out; second, five categories of analysis were defined: identification of technological problems; research funding; research; agricultural technical assistance and special credit lines and third, an index was built based on a survey applied to specialists to identify the progress of competitiveness. It was found that the tools designed in Conpes failed to improve competitiveness levels, due to five reasons: 1. The demands are written in an ambiguous way; 2. The expected levels of investment are not reached; 3. There is no research coordination instrument for the horticultural subsector; 4. The transfer model through Epsagro generated disorder and a disconnection between supply and demand for technical solutions and 5. The line of credit was not implemented.
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