EL COMPLEJO AGRÍCOLA INDUSTRIAL LA ALDEA SDAD. COOP. NACE CON EL FIN DE GENERAR EMPLEO EN EL SECTOR PRIMARIO.

Emplear las tierras que no se cultivan, planificar las plantaciones, concertar acuerdos con empresas comercializadoras y fomentar el autoempleo, son las tareas que tienen los directivos de la sociedad cooperativa recién creada en La Aldea.
Tiene poco tiempo de vida, pero cuentan con grandes dosis de ilusión y ganas de emprender. Así manifestaba el promotor de esta iniciativa, Pedro Sánchez, to Agroaldea el entusiasmo y el empeño por generar empleo y alternativas en el ámbito del sector primario.

Todo comenzó a partir de la invitación que trasladaron a Sánchez de acudir a reuniones que se celebraban en las sedes de las asociaciones de La Aldea, and learn about the serious situation in which many agricultural workers found themselves due to the closure of the companies in which they had been working..

Sánchez listed these companies, references in the sector, that they could not overcome the obstacles and were forced to terminate of the activity: SAT Los Leones, Copaisan Cooperative, Cooperativa Coparlita and other societies that were grouped together in cooperatives.

From now on, comments Sánchez, The idea of ​​creating a Cooperative that would manage the means for workers to be their own entrepreneurs took shape., starting from adequate planning that guarantees maintaining an adequate offer.

A few months ago the idea was presented to fifty people interested in being part of the project., either with land or with labor. There, the provisional board that processed the creation of the cooperative was elected..

The cooperative was recently established in an event attended by the mayor of the municipality to show his support for this new initiative., Sánchez stated, and we have more than a hundred resumes of interested people, he added.

Since then there have been contacts with marketing companies, administrations, landowners and potential farmers.

Sánchez emphasizes that the business project aims to cover the entire primary sector, including livestock and fishing, recovering this last sector that has disappeared from the municipality due to shortcomings and unfulfilled promises.

However, Everything takes time and you have to be measured in your objectives.. For now, the company called Complejo Agrícola Industrial La Aldea Sociedad Cooperativa has already been created., and has its address at the headquarters of the Business Association, Aempral, Sanchez said..

The Board of the new Cooperative is made up of Mª Mercedes Hernández Rodríguez as president, Mª José Suárez González as secretary and Aníbal Llarena Cabrera as treasurer.

Regarding production, Sánchez affirms that they are open to any possibility, starting with fruits and vegetables and continuing with eggs and cheeses, as first products to market.

The agriculture that we want to practice is non-conventional, diversificar la oferta y potenciar cultivos que no están dando en la actualidad mucho rendimiento, como es el caso de la piña tropical, explica Sánchez.

Hay nuevas demandas por parte de emigrantes afincados como son la yuca, el plátano macho e incluso el café que cuentan con las condiciones idóneas en La Aldea para su cultivo, señala Pedro Sánchez. En cuanto al tomate, la opción de la nueva cooperativa es apostar por alguna especialidad para ensalada o cherries, pero no por el de exportación.

Otro de los cultivos por los que va a apostar Agrícola Industrial La Aldea es el de plantas forestales para repoblaciones, aprovechando las ayudas europeas que se destinan para la reforestación de terrenos en los que se ha abandonado la actividad.

One of the first actions that the new cooperative will carry out is the creation of a composting plant, for which they are finalizing the procedures for acquiring the appropriate machine. Sánchez explained that a light compost will be made with a maturation of three to four weeks..

The challenge now is to prepare the farms, plan crops and work to reduce the cost of desalination water, in order to guarantee price and supply stability.

The philosophy of this initiative is to create jobs, not to focus everything on the business, concludes Pedro Sánchez.