MERCAJUCAR Soc. Coop., Was established on December 1, 1999, with the aim of cultivating, handling, transforming, packaging and marketing the products from the Cooperative's farms and its partners, basing said activity on production standards and marketing that improve the quality of these products, achieving a stabilization of production throughout the year, which allows us to offer our products to the market, in times when the supply is very small. On September 7, 2000 we were recognized as an Organization of Producers of Fruits and Vegetables, (DOCM of 09/22/01), being registered with No. 804 in the Registry of said Organizations, for the category of Mushrooms and Other edible fungi . We control the entire mushroom production process, from obtaining the raw material necessary for the production of the mushroom (compost) through VILLACASA, SL. (Composting plant, in which the nutritive substrate of an organic nature is elaborated, in which the seed or inoculum is going to be implanted that after fruiting it becomes Mushroom), until the recycling of the compost, through RECOMSA, SC ., (Recycling plant in which compost is transformed into a series of products for use in Gardening, or as Organic Compost for Agriculture), companies that are also owned by our partners, along with other Cooperatives. Our partners have extensive experience in mushroom cultivation, work that they have exclusively carried out since 1980 through their own crops specially conditioned to achieve a higher quality of the product. Currently, the number of members of the Cooperative is forty-five (45), with an average age of forty (40) years, which gives a certain perspective of stability and future projection to our company. Mercajúcar has the adequate facilities, technical and human resources to maintain our products in refrigeration conditions that, in addition to reducing their metabolic speed and increasing their resistance to the action of insects and other microorganisms, guarantee their high quality ... . Quality of our products, which is one of our basic objectives, together with their traceability and which has been reinforced throughout the year 2000 and 2001, with the establishment of controls that allow us to offer a product to the market. increasingly higher quality, ensuring that the consumer can know its origin, and where appropriate, the manipulation that said product may have suffered throughout the supply chain, so that in the event that there is a problem related to himself, it can be easily located. In the first place, the product is individualized upon entering the warehouse (in which the product is labeled by the Warehouse Manager according to a first assessment of its quality, with the number of the supplier that has supplied it, and with the date of entry into the Warehouse), and subsequently before their sale, the person in charge of Quality Control of the Cooperative's products, determines which products will go directly to the market, and which others will be used due to their suitability For their transformation into laminate or trays, or on the contrary, because they do not meet the minimum quality requirements, they will be sent to the canning factory. Characteristics of the product that give it added value are; - information on beneficial qualities for health; Vegetables provide the diet with a series of micronutrients such as minerals, fibers and vitamins, and among the vitamins provided by vegetables, vitamin C (ascorbic acid), vitamin E (a-tocopherol) should be noted for their relevance. and vitamin A. In addition, numerous investigations indicate that oxidative compounds, which accelerate cell deterioration, can be neutralized by antioxidants contained in fruits and vegetables. Thus, numerous studies show that fresh vegetable products have excellent antioxidant potential, which in addition to a high content of water-soluble and fat-soluble vitamins, show high antioxidant activities. (Department of Plant Biology; Plant Physiology Unit; University of Murcia) - little handling thereof, - and no additives We currently have an annual mushroom production volume of approximately 2,500,000 Kilos, and we also have our own production of Mushrooms, with an annual production of 150,000 Kilos. We are currently beginning to cultivate a new variety of mushroom, the Portobello, an exotic mushroom with excellent flavor, a variety that does not have much roots in our region, but that we will soon begin to commercialize in our desire to achieve the greatest possible diversity in the offer. to our clients, not ruling out the cultivation or commercialization in any type of format, our products, or any other that the market demands.