Políticas públicas e desenvolvimento sustentável

Abstract

The subsidized agricultural credit is one of the instruments used for the Government in the search of increase of the production and in the modernization of farming, units and in the improvement in the quality of life of the small agricultural producer. Managed for the northeast Bank of Brazil, Northeast Constitutional Leasing Fund, therefore adjusted to medium term as well as long terms leasing projects in order to develop the Region. Among many FNE credits there is RURAL FNE, our researching object. The goal of this is study is to measure the sustainability of farmers supported by RURAL FNE, considering: social, economic, financial, environmental and employment aspects in order to try to find possible obstacles that can be surpassed in order to have farming sustainability. There were interviews with ones receiving RURAL FNE, RURAL FNE+PRONAF and PRONAF as well as the one without leasing. The sustainability rate of RURAL-FNE farmers was the highest one among all the productive sectors because those ones were rated as medium level of sustainability.