Análise social da aplicação de investimentos públicos em fruticultura: o caso da Cooperfame dos fruticultores do município de Maranguape, Ceará

Abstract

Sustainable rural development is almost always part of the agenda of government policies due to the reduced levels of income and low Human Development Indexes in rural Brazil, compared to urban areas. This issue is especially worrying in the Northeast, as most of the population lives in rural areas. Thus, the government formulates and executes actions to change this realitythrough social projects and programs. From this perspective, the objective of this research is to carry out a social analysis of the financing granted by the São José III Project to the Path de Assis Agroecological Family Farming Cooperative (Cooperfam) and your fruit growers, located in the Municipality of Maranguape, in the state of Ceará. As an analysis method, the social analysis of projects is usedthrough projected cash flows for 10 yearsand calculation of profitability indicators, commonly used to test the viability of projects, namely the Benefit-Cost Ratio (RBC), the Net Present Value (NPV), the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and the Payback of the Capital. It is concluded that the financing granted by the São José III Project generated positive returns from the social point of viewfor all the discount rates presented, showing that it is convenient to continue the political actions of allocation of resources through the referred project.