The Cooperative

Initially, Coopasv was known as Unipasv, an entity founded on June 15, 2000, when a group of small farmers in Santana da Vargem (MG) came together to acquire Pronaf, as they could evaluate each other in groups, looking for product quality.

In 2002, the cooperative suffered a financial setback and, to prevent the entity from becoming extinct, a new board was elected, this time composed of Mr. Francisco Alves de Assis in the Presidency, Mr. Gilmar Donizete Oliveira as vice president, Mr. Neylon Peret Penha as secretary and Mr. Wilson Pedroso de Lima remained in the treasury.

In 2003, Fair Trade was presented to the Entity through a collaborator, Vanusia Nogueira, who, when participating in a coffee fair in the United States (SCAA), had her first contact with Fair Trade certification. Thus, the idea reached Brazil and Unipasv.

After the execution of the entire bureaucratic process, Unipasv achieved Fair Trade certification, becoming the second entity in Brazil to obtain this seal, adding a differential in the process of marketing smallholder coffee and an important opportunity for fairer prices.

In 2012, Unipasv associates transformed the entity into a cooperative, to offer a wider range of sales possibilities to all those involved. Thus, the Santana da Vargem Small Farmers Cooperative (Coopasv) was born.

Today Coopasv is a Fair Trade Cooperative, with coffees produced by family farming, with excellent quality, crops located between 900 and 1340 meters in altitude and around 100 associates between the municipalities of Santana da Vargem, Três Pontas, Boa Esperança, Coqueiral , Varginha, Elói Mendes, Carmo da Cachoeira, Ilicínea, Nepomuceno and São Gonçalo do Sapucaí.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

Chief Executive Officer: Francisco Alves de Assis

Commercial Director: Enio Brito

Financial Director: Antônio Afonso de Oliveira

OFFERED PRODUCTS:

Good and Fine Cup coffees;

Standard export coffees, Type2 / 3; 3/4. Sieve 14 up;

Score cafes;

Coffees with national market standards.

BUSINESS OR SERVICES:

  • Orientation to the producer on the internal and external market;
  • Specialized technical assistance to members;
  • Training in the area of ​​quality, post-harvest, MIP and commercialization, covering all the demand of the production chain;
  • Guidance and assistance in the field of rural credit;
  • Coffee quality contest, promoting producers and their product;
  • Partnerships with Sebrae / MG, Senar / MG, Hanna Neumann. IF-Sul de Minas / Muzambinho, Nestlé Inglaterra, IPD, MDA, Emater / MG, BR-FAIR, Fairtrade Brasil, UFLA and CNA;
  • Training in management and administration for members and employees;
  • Support to needy institutions in the region.

VISION

The vision of COOPASV is to be a model of Cooperative and reference to the familiar coffee, promoting technical and administrative development of the Cooperative of certification and verification codes.

MISSION

COOPASV’s mission is to value country people and the fruit of their fairly work.

VALUES

– Confidence

– Integrity

– Respect

– Transparency

– Ethics