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The Yerbera cooperative, located in Pozo Strait consists of 130 members of COAGACART group, which develops own cheese using milk goat hundred percent.
The Mayor, Pilar Barreiro with councilors Decentralization, Nicolás Ángel Bernal;
Infrastructure, Francisco Espejo, and District and Celebration, Florentina Garcia visited the facilities accompanied the president of the Neighborhood Board Pozo Strait, José Manuel Valdés.
A tour of the La Yerbera has served to know the process of making goat cheese.
The COAGACART group launched a project aimed at the development of an own original cheese.
Currently, the cooperative has three farms where they use goat milk.
The proposed Yerbera cheese, cured, semi cured and almonds and goat milk itself.
The cooperative comes to export their products to Northern Europe and even America.
The mayor said the visit to the facilities that the livestock sector has endured times of crisis and need them credit.
The cooperative is being done every day with a specialized market not only cheese but milk.
He also wanted to recognize the sample of this cooperative effort: We demonstrate that professionalism and work of all lets make a quality product with designation of origin and standing in the best markets.
The president of the cooperative, Antonio Madrid has stressed that the livestock sector has had many losses.
Many farmers were about to disappear and for this reason the cooperative was formed, is how people are getting significant profitability.
Antonio Madrid also wanted to put in relevance to the goat sector is the only one that is getting a lot of young people.
Approximately 340 liters of goat's milk passes through the La Yerbera each year, taking appellation in many of its products exclusively made ​​with goat's milk.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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