Programa Nacional de Fortalecimento da Agricultura Familiar (PRONAF): análise com enfoque no desenvolvimento sergipano ao longo de 20 anos

Abstract

The National Program for the Strengthening of Family Farming (PRONAF) was created with the purpose to stimulate the expansion of family farming and provide economic development in Brazil. Begining with this premise, by highlighting the numerous changes undergone by the program, in particular the migration from the Ministry of Agrarian Development (MDA) to the Special Secretariat for Family Agriculture and Agrarian Development of the Civil House from the Presidency of the Republic (Sead) in May 2016 and the unification of the Family Farming Crop Plan to the national Crop Plan in 2019. In this scenario, the present dissertation started from the main hypothesis that there will be a concentration of credit in medium and large producers, causing a credit restriction to boost socioeconomic development in the state of Sergipe. Thus, the problem to be answered by the academic work was whether after the end of the MDA and the inclusion of PRONAF in the Brazilian Safra plan, there will be an increase in the concentration on this credit program at the state of Sergipe. Starting from a hypothetical-deductive methodology, with a quantitative and qualitative approach based on documentary research and bibliographical references. The work sought to identify the role of rural microcredit in the face of economic growth, through a literature review, from the perspective of development proposed by Furtado, the thought of Myrdal and the idea of circular causation and Schumpeter with the view of credit for the development, as well as na explanation of information asymmetries that limit access to credit. From a brief history of PRONAF its characteristics and temporal patterns were identified over 20 years, from 1999 to 2019, evaluating the number of contracts carried out in Brazil and Sergipe, the values contracted year by year with monetary restatement and the average of these values, the regional discrepancies and the differences between costing and investment were broken down. Finally, the trend of concentration of resources via PRONAF in Sergipe municipalities was demonstrated by analyzing the data from the Central Bank's data matrix in the credit lines Agricultural for Corn and Livestock Investment for cattel acquisition, mainly in the period after 2016 and more strongly in 2020.