Cooperativa "El Sembradío", a company for the commercialization, production and collection of honey in the city of Escárcega, Campeche, Mexico.

Abstract

Agricultural cooperatives are in many cases a catalyst that has generated a change in the agricultural production model, and they continue to compose a system of economic and social organization capable of articulating productive development with local and regional economic development.

In the following writing, it is proposed to understand cooperativism as an element of social cohesion. Let's imagine that the current economic system, the cultural and social environment were permeated by cooperation. If this were the case, surely terms such as inequality or social exclusion would not be as common or the effects of globalization would not be the same.

The work seeks to analyze the concrete contribution of the cooperative system to the rural development process and specifically to local and regional economic development, studying the case and the experience of the agricultural cooperative El sembradío in the municipality of Escárcega, Campeche. For this, secondary information was used from national and provincial sources regarding honey production in Campeche and primary information through the preparation of a questionnaire for a focal group of key informants who were the ones who founded and created the current structure of the cooperative.

Keywords: Cooperative, solidarity economy, community work.