Asociarse y exportarel asociacionismo agrario en Canarias 1940-2000

Abstract

This article studies the behavior of the agrarian associative forms and cattle raisers of the islands canaries since the years that covers the franco’s regime period, to the new models of cooperation that will arise after the arrival of the democracy and the incorporation of the Spanish agriculture to the agricultural politics of the European Union. The definition of a profile of collective management based on the commercialization of the agrarian products was the characteristic that identified to the canary export agriculture. After a first phase of adaptation to the franco’s regime regulation, the cooperative they designed their strategies of commercialization toward the national market. With a versatile structure, they had no problem in being incorporated to the new associative models that required the fast transformation of the agriculture and the stockbreeding to some more competitive markets and capitalized. Finally, the success of the establishment of a model of mixed collective management as the agrarian companies of transformation, shows the dynamics of the agrarian sector in Canaries.