During his visit to Latin America, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a meeting on September 13 with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos.

In the course of the conversation with the Colombian leader, according to the press release of the head of government, Binyamin Netanyahu, in particular, said:

"The first official visit of the Israeli Prime Minister to Latin America, to Colombia is very inspiring and inspires great hopes. We believe that Latin America has great potential, that the world is on the verge of big changes. The global economy has irrevocably changed. Everything is built on technology.

Even the areas that were previously considered low-tech, today turn to high technologies that affect productivity and improve people's lives in the way that it was impossible to imagine a few years ago. Our cellular technology proves this. 20 - 25 years ago we had to call from pay phones, there were no phones in the cars. The world is changing in this sphere, in all spheres.

You talked about agriculture. Today, agriculture combines great data, artificial intelligence and agrarian interaction, not only in advanced industries, such as communications or advanced production.

Unmanned aerial vehicles allow you to obtain up-to-date and efficient information from fields, allowing you to analyze which plants need more fertilizer, so you do not need to cultivate fields with an area of ​​several square kilometers, saving money and producing more products with less resources.

So we do in Israel. We produce more at a lower cost - more water, more milk. Air and water are cleaner, energy is better.
We believe that together we can do much more. After the end of the conflict, Colombia offers great opportunities.

I discussed with the president some areas of cooperation. The first, of course, is agriculture. The second is water, how to draw on our experience to solve the problem of the arid regions of Colombia. We believe that this is a very promising area. We talked about cyber security.