Perspectiva do cooperativismo e seus princípios na COOPESCAF de Camalaú-PB em 2023.

Abstract

The human being is known as a social being and forms of cooperation are something ancient in the history of humanity, because when people come together, they produce much more than what they would produce individually. This article aims to discuss the practice of the principles of cooperativism from the Cooperative of Fishermen, Aquaculturists and Family Farmers of Camalaú and region (COOPESCAF). Cooperativism, as an alternative income movement, can be used as an instrument for better income distribution and socioeconomic growth. To this end, bibliographic collections, public documents and Internet consultations were researched. Methodologically, the work is structured through data collection, based on the application of a questionnaire on the workers' profile, type of products consumed, sold and distributed. These data were synthesized, taking as a reference the theoretical discussion on the subject. The research results demonstrated that there is greater female participation (68%), low education with incomplete primary education (67%), majority age over 40 years (51%), products with affordable prices (100%), majority dedicated only fishing (78%) and great satisfaction among members (92%). As final considerations, it is observed that the majority of cooperative members do not have suggestions for better performance of the cooperative, but the second largest portion of cooperative members believes that more government incentive and opportunity programs for fishermen are needed, the third largest portion, for its time, suggests that there should be greater participation of producers in cooperative meetings.