Liebig

https://www.cooperativaliebig.com.ar/

Since the end of the nineteenth century, successive contingents of immigrants arrived in Argentina, to seek peace and work here that they could not find in their countries of origin. Among them, a large group of Germans, including agricultural producers, settled in the northeast of the Province of Corrientes. From there, they were integrating the Ukrainian and Polish immigrants who were already established in the south of the Province of Misiones, in the City of Apóstoles. Together with their capacity for work and sacrifice, this human group brought the model of Cooperative Societies as a form of organization of the solidarity economy. This is how the Agricultural Cooperative of the Liebig Ltda Colony is founded. that today in its 95th anniversary, made up of 126 producers associated to fulfilled the dream of those immigrants. The direction of its first days was headed by its first President Walter Orstermann, currently being chaired by Ricardo Daniel Handziak, The Yerba Mate, a product that identifies it, with its Playadito brand, leads the Argentine market, and is present in 12 countries on all continents, with an annual production of 36 million kilos of processed product. It also develops production activities in Livestock, Forestry, Sawmill and Beekeeping. To which are added service activities for producers, staff and community. Cooperativa Liebig has its doors open for you to get to know it, it has a thematic room where its history is reflected, it also invites you to know the industrial process and taste its products, it is a free service that the Cooperative has for those who want to know it.

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