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Cooperativa de Trabajadores Rurales

" The cooperative is the home of each of the neighbors and friends participating in the cooperative and producing"

(Zuray, a member of the Cooperative).

are recognized primarily as trabajadores , workers, because "we do not own nor farms or businesses, nor do we have a job or live in public administration the work of others, if not of our own efforts (... ) which is free, without masters, (...) decent, free of exploitation, is shared, for everyone. This Is the word "cooperative." We work in the fields, the farm and in the struggle for land .
La Cooperativa de Trabajadores Rurales involves a dozen families who come together to organize workshops popular education and working groups: there is a group for the garden, one for marketing, an engineering, the latter group belongs to Ramon: "I feel I live in a different way (...), producing individually. For example, I'm selling the milk, I go from house to house with one cow. I climb into homes to sell one liter, two liters - the cow that gives me - and I live in this livelihood ", the cooperative's products are sold to a consumer group is organized in the same network at the headquarters of the cooperative, so as in markets and small supermarkets.

production system and also the choices life of the companions of the Cooperative are animated by principles proposed as alternatives to the model of capitalist production and life: from study groups to raise the general level of education of poor children, the "day of the child" - because there must be a time to the game and the relationship between parents and children - the spread of the heritage of popular culture through traditional dances to the use of natural remedies in place of traditional medicine industry.

However, the system is hampered by serious problems, in which the contrast between concrete and agriecologia agrinegozio (capitalism in the primary sector): first, the cooperative's products have higher costs than large companies, and secondly they fail to meet the needs of large quantities of products expressed by large retailers (eg. supermarkets); Add to this the problems resulting from low fertility of the land, linked to the disappearance of the most fertile and most superficial layer of humus, the so-called tierra negra.

Socialism fellow of the Cooperative part, evidence is building talking with their neighbors, discussing daily problems: no enlightenment, no health care, roads and a derelict school 3 km away to walk, in a historical transition characterized by the gradual disappearance of small properties and phenomena of abandonment of the countryside and urbanization, the Cooperative has " delivery is very important, which is to turn back to work in the fields .

(Source: Biodiversidad )