They named Melo National Capital of Cooperativism 2023
In the parliamentary session on April 12, the designation of Melo as “National Capital of Cooperatives for the year 2023” was voted. The representative for Cerro Largo for the National Party, Dra. Carmen Tort, in the foundation of her statement, argued that Cerro Largo has a cooperative movement that has been developing for many years.
Currently there are a total of 78 active local cooperatives, 8 social cooperatives, 12 work, 8 agricultural, 3 savings and credit and 48 housing. According to the MTSS data managed by Deputy Tort, the department’s cooperatives contribute for 198 active workers. The agricultural cooperatives employ 88 people as dependents, without counting the owners of agricultural exploitations associated with them”.
Another example is the Melo-based dairy cooperative, COLEME, with a long history founded more than 90 years ago.
This arises from article 1 of Law 19,279 of September 19, 2014, the PE at the proposal of the National Institute of Cooperativism sends us to the General Assembly a bill that designates the city of Melo as the National Capital of the cooperativism for the year 2023, than the one that was voted by the Senate on Tuesday the 11th and this Wednesday the 12th by the House of Representatives.
