The hybrid cooperative and its formas of action in Paraná

Abstract

The cooperatives operating in the agricultural sector of Paraná, for the most part have
emerged as market companies working in receiving and repassing to the market for raw
materials supplied by the farmers involved, then passed by an intense evolutionary
process and became a big commercial enterprises and the integrated agribusiness
industries. In the new phase are a hybrid and contradictory behavior when operating at
the same time and with the same structure, with free members, associated and others
producers (who don’t fit into any of these categories). This article treats of
developments and such behavior, taking as references COCAMAR, based in Maringá,
northern of the Paraná, and C. VALE, based in Palotina, the western region of Paraná,
stressing that the new form of acting companies are so far table of associations and their
own ideological principles of cooperatives as universal system, based on society of
people and not capital.