Crédito rural agrícola e impactos regionais sobre a dinâmica da produção agrícola brasileira no período de 2000 a 2010

Abstract

This article examines rural credit, employing measures of concentration, specialization, location and inequality, which are specificed in the methodological section of this paper. The study is only analyzing agricultural credit, aiming to problematize the impact of the same on the conditions of expansion of Brazilian agriculture in the period from 2000 to 2010, but considering the indicators mentioned and focussing on the distribution of agricultural credit at the national level. The macro regions employed correspond to the definitions of the IBGE, for municipalities. The indicators show that approximately 84% of municipalities with high availability of agricultural credit are concentrated in the South and Southeast of Brazil in the year 2010. In contrast, the participation of the North is miniscule, having grown from 0.5% to 0.7% during the period 2000 to 2010. Another result was that the highest concentration of the cities with extremely limited or nonexistent credit was clearly in the North and Northeast regions. This reinforces the importance of new public policies aimed at improving regionalized supply of agricultural credit.