Unicaja and Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias Extremadura have signed a new collaboration agreement under which the financial institution renews its support for the organisation to continue working on initiatives that promote the development of the sector. In this regard, they have planned to hold a conference early next year to provide farmers and livestock breeders with training on the 2026 CAP Campaign.
The agreement was signed by the regional manager of Unicaja in Extremadura, Marga Serna, and the president of Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de Extremadura, Ángel Pacheco. Both agreed on the need to continue working to provide knowledge and innovative tools to a sector in constant evolution.
Pacheco stressed the importance of establishing lines of collaboration between the two institutions to help improve the competitiveness of cooperatives in the region, farmers and livestock breeders. "This collaboration has been going on for many years and I hope it will continue in the future, as both institutions have strong roots in the region and a firm commitment to creating value in the rural areas of the region," said the president of Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias Extremadura.
For her part, Marga Serna conveyed "Unicaja's full support for promoting the growth of cooperatives and the agri-food industry in Extremadura, providing innovative services and drawing on the bank’s experience in the agricultural and livestock sector and its proximity to the rural environment of Extremadura. All this with the aim of offering each customer the best financial solutions".
She highlighted Unicaja's wide range of financing options for the agricultural sector, which includes loans for agricultural investments, to improve the sustainability of their businesses or to finance new crops, with the aim of supporting their projects to continue growing and increasing their competitiveness.
Serving more than 30,000 members in Extremadura
Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias Extremadura comprises more than 180 cooperatives with around 37,000 cooperative members and generates more than 3,000 direct jobs, most of them in rural areas.
Unicaja's commitment to providing ongoing support to the countryside translates into the provision of financial, protection and advisory services, as well as the development of specific agreements, aware of the importance of standing alongside professionals in the agricultural and livestock sector to contribute to the economic and sustainable development of Extremadura.
Recently, the organisation has also collaborated with Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias Extremadura in holding its Assembly and presenting the organisation's Activity Report, with the aim of highlighting the importance of the agri-food industry in the region's economy.
