The president of the Community, Pedro Antonio Sanchez, said today that the "formula of cooperatives ago that agriculture is a sector with a future" during the ceremony commemorating the 30th anniversary of the cooperative La Vega de Pliego, which is made up of close 700 partners.
The regional chief executive stressed that "have been years of effort, challenges and new objectives for improvement and to believe in a common project that gets stronger the cooperative."
He stressed the commitment to product diversification and innovation "to win cooperative opportunities and turn in a stronger, safer and most promising project".
"The cooperative is a model of success," said the president of the Community, who also added that "it is the social side of the economy."
In this regard, he also said that farmers "have made this model a benchmark in the region."
In his speech, Pedro Antonio Sanchez stressed that the management of the cooperative model generated "new opportunities in the development of marketing."
He also highlighted the support of the Community in the development of the modernization of irrigation, which is a "must", and aid to "the improvement of the irrigation area is completed" and "to ensure water Pliego it needs".
La Vega de Pliego operates on over 3,600 hectares of farmland, of which more than 10 million kilos of product as apricot, almond, olive oil, peach, orange and lemon are obtained.
Source: CARM