Special Law for Agricultural Associations

The Special Law for Agricultural Associations creates the Department of Agricultural Associations as a dependency of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, responsible for promoting, organizing, and granting legal status to agricultural production cooperatives. This law emerges in the context of Agrarian Reform to expedite the formation and legalization of cooperatives in intervened properties, establishing simplified mechanisms for their registration and legal recognition. The law allows groups of farmers to obtain legal status by presenting the constitution document drawn up at each property with the intervention of delegates from ISTA and MAG. It also contemplates the registration of other forms of organization such as unions, federations, and confederations of agricultural workers.