Spatialization of rural credit captured by smallholder agriculture: Temer and Bolsonaro governments

Abstract

The objective of this work is to map the financial resources of public credit programs applied to smallholder agriculture between January 2015 and June 2022. For better comparison, the period was divided into two four-year blocks, corresponding to presidential terms. The determined hypothesis is that there was a regional favoritism in the large volume of resources used, which worsens the regional disparity that already

exists between smallholders. Data from the Central Bank and the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) were used to build the base to be investigated. The maps

were created using the softwares Philcarto and Inkscape 2.0. Data on numbers and values of contracts relating to the funding and investment modalities of National Program for Strengthening Family Agriculture (PRONAF) and other rural credit lines with the participation of smallholder agriculture were analyzed. The mapping results indicate that there was a majority of uptake by municipalities in the Central-West region, in the state of Tocantins, central-south of Pará, south of Piauí, south of Maranhão, west of Bahia, central-west of Minas Gerais, central-north of Roraima, south and east of Amazonas, south of Acre, central Santa Catarina and south of Rio Grande do Sul.