EVOLUÇÃO E DISTRIBUIÇÃO DO PRONAF ENTRE 2017 E 2022

um estudo multirregional das linhas custeio e investimento

Abstract

The National Program for the Strengthening of Family Agriculture (PRONAF) is a relevant public policy when analyzing its distribution of credit to family farmers in the country. This work aims to highlight the operations of the program's costing and investment lines, as well as verify and analyze its evolution and financial distribution in the regions of Brazil between 2017 and 2022. In this sense, quantitative data on the amount of credit financed by the program were used. program, made available by the Central Bank of Brazil and IBGE, so that the values ​​were not deflated and are at their nominal value. The results of this work indicate that, between 2017 and 2022, PRONAF resources suffered a continuous increase, while the numbers of contracts carried out had decreases. In the regions, it is possible to verify the concentration of financed resources and the operationalization of the program, as well as the inequality in the distribution of credit between the South and Northeast regions of the country. The research results in a large concentration of funding in the South region, while the Northeast region cannot reach, in 2022, 30% of the resources distributed to family farmers in the South.