Check out the cooperatives! They account for 3.4% of Mendoza's Gross Domestic Product, where they generate 10,000 jobs and pay salaries amounting to 72 million pesos.

At the Buenos Aires headquarters of Coninagro, the Association of Argentine Wine Cooperatives (ACOVI) presented a comprehensive economic study on Wednesday about the contribution of cooperatives to the economy of Mendoza. The report highlights that the wine cooperative sector contributed 184.430 billion pesos in Added Value to the economy of the main wine-producing province, representing about 30% of the value generated by the entire Mendoza wine industry. The Economic Impact Report of the cooperative wine system of the province of Mendoza defines other overwhelming data about the role of these types of social economy organizations. If the wine industry as a whole - from primary production to bottling - explains 12.4% of Mendoza's Gross Geographic Product (GGP), the cooperatives grouped in ACOVI account for 3.4% of the provincial Gross Product. One of the central axes of the report prepared by economist Daniel Rada was the impact on employment and income distribution. The ...