Financiamento da agricultura familiar - análise das dificuldades de acesso ao PRONAF

Abstract

Family farming has always had a key role in the food supply and fixing of farmers in the field, avoiding their exodus to the cities. This type of farming, particularly in the Northeast, is predominantly developed by undercapitalized farmers who do not have a condition to offer the guarantees required by financial institutions to hiring rural credit. To alleviate this difficulty of access to rural credit, was established in 1995, PRONAF (National Program to Strengthen Family Farming), which serves to supply credit to farmers on more favorable terms than conventional loans. However, in the literature it appears that this program presents a number of difficulties for its access. Thus, the objective of this dissertation is to identify, analyze and propose suggestions on the main difficulties encountered by family farmers in the municipality of Garanhuns - PE to access the resources of PRONAF B. To achieve this objective, we interviewed local actors who somehow deal with Pronaf and were applied 82 questionnaires to the families of the municipality farmers access or have accessed credit. It was concluded that, despite the existence of some bureaucracies and contractual requirements, the vast majority of farmers understand that the program is easy to access. There was no any great difficulty accessing the program, only a few bottlenecks that prevent its universalization.