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In market year (MY) 2025/2026, FAS Bogota (Post) forecasts Colombia’s sugar production to recover to 2.3 million metric tons (MMT) due to improved weather conditions from the weakening of the La Niña phenomenon and expected normal weather patterns, positively impacting sugarcane yields and sucrose content.

On March 5, 2025, Colombia's National Institute for the Surveillance of Food and Medicines (INVIMA) confirmed that starch is approved by the Colombian government as an additive for use as a thickener and stabilizer agent in fresh cheese.

The United States remains the top international supplier to Colombia's food ingredients sector.

In 2016, U.S. rice exports to Colombia are 66.1 percent lower than the previous year. This is due to a strong U.S. dollar, larger Colombian domestic production, and increased competition...

In fiscal year (FY) 2016 (October to September) total Colombian food and agricultural imports were valued at $5.5 billion.

Hotel occupancy rates remain stable at 53.6 percent in 2015, with a number of new hotel chains expanding operations in Colombia.

Colombia continues to expand its biotechnology frontier. The adoption rate for biotech corn has surpassed that of cotton and the development of a regulatory framework is underway.

Over the last two years, the volume of Colombian coffee production was only marginally impacted by the El Niño weather phenomena, although the quality of beans was affected.

FAS/Bogota took the SaborUSA team on the road to Denver, Colorado to see the thriving local culinary scene.

FAS/Bogota recently took SaborUSA on the road to Washington, D.C. and Virginia to explore the culinary richness of this historic region.

Colombia’s biofuel mandates remain unchanged resulting in little incentive to increase production or consumption.

On January 15, 2016, USDA and USAID executed a participating agency program agreement (PAPA) titled Cacao for Peace.