One week before the start of its 18th edition, Expo Agrofuturo 2025 takes over Medellín
Thanks to the Mayor's Office of Medellín, 4 startups accompanied by the business development programs of this entity and 10 exhibitors from peasant markets will participate in the fair.
The Secretariat of Economic Development of the Government of Antioquia announced incentives for small and medium-sized producers that facilitate access to credit and reduce the use of the drop-by-drop modality.
From the organization of the event, they enabled a 35% discount for the two days of FIXA (Agrofuturo Innovation Forum). More information at Expoagrofuturo.com
Medellín, September 2025. As is tradition, after two years, Expo Agrofuturo returns to Medellín with a robust academic agenda to discuss the present and future of the sector, with the new technologies that are being used to enhance the productivity of the sector.
For this version, Expo Agrofuturo will have more than 350 exhibitors and representatives from 11 countries, including Brazil, Taiwan, Chile, China, Italy and the United States, who will meet in Plaza Mayor Medellín from September 10 to 12.
The announcement, which was made at the Medellín Wholesale Central, included the participation of Mario Cajiao, vice president of Corferias; Ricardo Jaramillo, co-founder of Expo Agrofuturo; Manuel Alejandro Naranjo, Secretary of Economic Development of the Government of Antioquia; María Fernanda Galeano, Secretary of Economic Development of the Mayor's Office of Medellín and Felipe España, co-founder of DataRock.
At the beginning of the event, Mario Cajiao, vice president of Corferias, commented that “Expo Agrofuturo is a platform that promotes the smart field. There will be three days of a packed agenda in which we will have topics of financing and economy, bioinputs, use of resources, technological applications, among many others. It is a strategic space for all those people who see an opportunity in the Colombian countryside”.
The vice president of Corferias highlighted that the fair is open to professionals who want to participate. You can enter the website and register. “We have 35% discount for both days of FIXA. One day is worth 560,000. but with the two-day discount it would be a value of 695,000”.
Then, Ricardo Jaramillo, co-founder of Expo Agrofuturo, highlighted the importance of the fair to connect the different actors in the agricultural system and pointed out that in these 18 years we have had a very satisfactory experience in investment, in land use, in marketing. Today we talk much more about entrepreneurship and ecosystem. Not only see agriculture as sowing, but see it as an ecosystem that goes to the consumer. Understand that it is a process in which many logistics, technology, software and marketing services interact”.
For his part, Manuel Alejandro Naranjo, Secretary of Economic Development of the Government of Antioquia, highlighted the upward behavior that the agricultural sector has had this year, even marking the growth of the national economy in the first half of 2025, “is a sector that represents approximately 8 % of Antioquia's GDP. Behavior that demonstrates the importance of platforms like this fair for employment and promoting exports in the department”.
In addition, Naranjo highlighted the results of the agreement with the National Guarantee Fund “, we have placed nearly $75,000 million in credits, most of them for small informal productive units, which corresponds to nearly 15,500 assigned credits, compared to the alliance we have with Banco Agrario, we have placed almost 4,000 credits, 89% of them to small producers”.
En esa línea, María Fernanda Galeano, secretaria de Desarrollo Económico de la Alcaldía de Medellín, resaltó la resiliencia del campo colombiano y los productos autóctonos de las regiones que están siendo protagonistas a nivel internacional. “Desde la Alcaldía de Medellín, en compañía de la Cámara de Comercio de Medellín, Comfama y Procolombia, vamos a estar acompañando la rueda de negocios de esta nueva edición de Expo Agrofuturo, especializada en exportación agroindustrial”, dijo Galeano.
La secretaria agregó que en la feria van a participar 10 emprendedores acompañados por la Alcaldía de Medellín, 4 startups acompañadas por los programas de desarrollo empresarial de la Alcaldía y 10 expositores de mercados campesinos.
Para el cierre del evento, Felipe España, co-fundador de DataRock, plataforma especializada en la administración de los cultivos, manifestó que “desde nuestra operación hemos podido darle incentivos a los jóvenes de las regiones para que se queden trabajando en el campo, aplicando las tecnologías que permiten la optimización del trabajo en el agro”, subrayando cómo la interpretación de la información y los datos impulsan la competitividad del sector.
Sin duda, este evento demuestra que Expo Agrofuturo se ha consolidado como un escenario que trabaja en pro del fortalecimiento y evolución del agro colombiano. Recuerde que el evento será del 10 al 12 de septiembre en Plaza Mayor Medellín y es organizado por Agrilink y Corferias.
Para más información sobre actividades, boletería, expositores y noticias de la feria, los interesados pueden ingresar a la página oficial del evento: https://expoagrofuturo.com/, que hace parte de Econexia, la comunidad digital de conexiones y negocios de Corferias, dentro de su ecosistema de agroindustrias y alimentos.
