Share
100% funded by 133 investors
instalment
monthly
term
5 years
yearly interest
5.8%
risk rating
C+
The Cooperative Opuntias Alentejo was founded in 2019 with the goal of fomenting agriculture and livestock in Serpa, with a special focus on the cultivation, transformation, and trade of prickly pears and its derivatives – palms and flowers.
This investment will be used to buy essential equipment for the Cooperative’s operation and for the launch of the first prickly pear marketing and trade campaign, happening soon. Therefore, the money will be used in the following:
The Cooperative’s work will have a very positive environmental and social impact :
people impacted
The revenue obtained with this campaign will be used to pay for the loan instalments. During the first year, the promoter predicts to sell the whole production, about 20 tons of fruit.
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This project is guaranteed with the pledge of the equipment installed.
Cooperativa OpuntiasAlentejo, Crl. is headquartered in Serpa and operates in a small town called Vale do Poço, both in Alentejo. Its main goal is to promote local agriculture, mainly through the cultivation of prickly pears, its cultivation, transformation, and marketing. Tomé Panazeite, an agronomist engineer with over 30 years of experience, is a founding member and the main responsible for the organization.
Its members chose to be in Vale do Paço due to the following:
The cooperative has the following functions:
The main function of the cooperative is to guarantee that the whole production of its members is sold. The products will be mainly sold to large retailers and supermarkets, but also to small retailers, local merchants, directly to consumers, namely in national and international fairs, or even online.
Active since
2019
Fiscal country
PT
Operating In
Serpa
Industry
Agriculture
Number of Goparity Loans
1
Women Shareholders
No
2020-08-20
First instalment was paid to all the investors
2020-07-20
105 investors successfully raised 15.000€
2020-07-15
2020-07-10