O site "Meu Crédito Rural" como ferramenta de desenvolvimento do Programa Nacional de Fortalecimento da Agricultura Familiar (PRONAF) no Recôncavo da Bahia

Abstract

The National Program for Strengthening of Family Farming (PRONAF) presents as one of the most important programs for family farming in Brazil. The proposal of PRONAF is to support rural development through the concession of rural credit for family farming for defrayal or investment. The Present Management Product was developed in order to provide PRONAF´s development mechanisms in the Territory of Identity of Recôncavo of Bahia. The objective of this study was to establish a website in order to contribute relevant information about the Program to that it can be used by both family farmers, and by the public managers and organizers of the PRONAF in Recôncavo of Bahia. The rural credit is an alternative to the expansion of rural development for expanding opportunities in the areas marked by the strong presence of family farming. In Recôncavo of Bahia, the results of PRONAF have shown low performance, especially to the lower middle of the resources employed by farmers through the program. Given the multiple dynamics that involve the rural areas, public policies for rural areas have demanded more specific and targeted mechanisms and that fundamentally allow progress with regard to the strengthening of such important policies as PRONAF. In order to leverage the opportunities for improvement and to foster the development of the program, the site "My Rural Credit" sought to bring together a range of important information about the PRONAF in Recôncavo of Bahia. The result of this work emerges as an innovative perspective, though, it is intended, over the years, increasingly incorporate the specificities of PRONAF and Recôncavo of Bahia´s family farming, making it possible to expand beyond the Territory of Recôncavo of Bahia. The information available on the website offer, beyond of guidelines for family farmers access to the Program, data and information on the resources and contracts made by farmers of Recôncavo, since the implementation of PRONAF in 1995 by the year 2015. In the website is still possible to know the productive and population characteristics of rural areas of the municipalities of the Recôncavo.