Caracas, June 5, 2025 – This Thursday marked the launch of the First AgroALBA Expo 2025 in Venezuela, a project aimed at strengthening food sovereignty among the member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), as well as other sister nations.
From La Carlota in Caracas, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil warmly welcomed the invited countries and affirmed that Venezuela currently possesses significant capacities that make it possible to achieve rapid growth in production both domestically and beyond its borders, driven by environmental demand and supply.
He referred to agricultural, plant, and animal production, as well as infrastructure for poultry, dairy, and goat farming.
“We have a vast wealth in the Caribbean and in each of ALBA’s allied countries, many have land and infrastructure capacities, others have the labor force to produce, each one has potential, and together we can supply the region. We are a market of nearly 60 million people who need us,” he stated.
He emphasized that agriculture increasingly requires more inputs, which is why peasants and large social movements, those with deep knowledge of sowing and production, have been included.
“We have extended invitations to countries beyond the Alliance, including those in Europe, Africa, and Eurasia, with a vision to transform our capacities and needs into a powerful tool for the liberation of Our America, we want this to serve as a model for new productive structures, and we are confident that this gathering will pave the way toward splendor, national sovereignty, and complementarity,” the Minister said.
Agreements
During the opening ceremony, he also announced that several agreements had been signed to boost agri-food production in Venezuela.
“We are making efforts to develop complementary logistics. We have a responsibility to show the world our potential and our principles, not those dictated by the market, but those we need in order to grow, to build investment capacity, and to achieve sovereignty, freedom, and progress,” he declared.
Finally, he highlighted that this working session will mark the first step toward what is already shaping up to be a victorious and liberating alliance, focused on leveraging resources to provide food for the people.
In attendance at the opening were the Executive Secretary of the regional bloc, Jorge Arreaza; Venezuela’s Minister for Productive Agriculture and Lands, Julio León Heredia; Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture, Juan Carlos Loyo; Minister for Industries and National Production, Alex Saab; and the President of Marca País, Daniela Cabello.
The First AgroALBA Expo 2025, taking place on June 5 and 6, will feature business roundtables, investors, and conferences.