PRONAF, uma "nova" forma de modernizar: Uma análise no município de Barra de Santana - PB

Abstract

The discussion about the importance and role of family farming in the Brazilian rural development is subject of intense debate. In Brazil, rural policies over the years, turned to the valuation of employer agriculture at the expense of family-based agriculture, recently, however, the family farm has become relevant in the context of the nation's rural development strategy. Some research currently link their research objects to the form of state intervention in the rural areas, from the execution of various public policies that include rurality as a decisive part of this intervention. Among these, the policy of granting agricultural credit has outstanding participation, composing the most important strategy for rural development in the country. The Ministry of Agrarian Development - MDA operates a national policy for granting credit for the strengthening of family farming through the National Program for Strengthening Family Agriculture (PRONAF). This program follows the rules established by MDA, electing the adoption of income limits and other aspects. The qualification of the farmer as a family farmer depends on the issuance of the Statement of Fitness for pronaf - DAP document stating who has the condition. Besides the DAP, which determines the class of access to credit, some types of credit require collateral to obtain financing, limited production potential and capacity of the payee, factors that constitute inaccurate and paradoxical in those regions where low rates economic and social development, such as the Brazilian Northeast. The government discourse diffuses the need to integrate family farms to markets and the modernization of the means of production as requirements development and improvement of rural conditions. This study was aimed at analyzing the overall funding pronaf in Barra de Santana-PB under the modernization approaches seeking to understand their effective contribution to the development of the municipality. The specific objectives sought to identify the socioeconomic profile of farmers, checking if there was an increase in technological production standards; quantify the volume of resources made available by the municipality pronaf the period 2010-2012 and also finally assess the acceptability of the program in the region and its institutional environment. The methodology is exploratory and descriptive, and quantitative and qualitative approaches. We used questionnaires and interviews as tools for data collection, as well as research on secondary data sources and bibliographic queries concerning this theme alludes.