page_title: UNAPA
section_title: Activities and productive potential
hierarchical_section_title: UNAPA / Activities and productive potential
caption_attribution_description: English: MERCAMPO (Nicaraguan farmers marker picture) Español: MERCAMPO (mercado de los campesinos de Nicaragua)
context_page_description: UNAPA is a Nicaraguan national union which represents small farmers, livestock breeders, forestry producers, fisheries, agro-dealers and services, under an associative and self-managed form of production that enables them to develop economies of scale and access technology, in order to gain competitiveness and be subjects to development, without regard to political inclination, religion, race or gender.
  UNAPA is an autonomous and independent organization, with a two-dimensional model:
  Associative and self-managed farmers and community
  Business-Enterprise
  To join UNAPA one just has to get involved with one of the objective groups, cooperatives or production centers, provide volunteer work or financial support according to your possibilities. The financial support is used to finance the operation of the guild's offices.
context_section_description: UNAPA now heads towards the strengthening of cooperative unions, establishment of the Federation of Farmers Cooperatives FECAMPO and the promotion of a fair trading system known as MERCAMPO to get the products directly to consumers.
  As a guild and in an aggregate UNAPA counts with 17473 hectares suitable for agricultural crops, 35000 acres of pasture for livestock and 13977 hectares of forest land.
  The main item of commercial production are: coffee, rice, tobacco, sesame, soy, peanuts, sorghum, maize, sugar cane, shrimp, cattle, milk, meat, agricultural inputs, organic farming, roasted coffee and cereals.
caption: Fair trading system directly from the producer to the consumer (MERCAMPO)
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