Financiamento agrícola e produção: o caso da cultura do milho no Brasil

Abstract

This study´s objective was to analyze, comparatively, the variation of the planted area, its productivity and the corn production with the use of rural credit. Rural credit is a financial resource destined for rural producers and cooperatives, or associations of rural producers, with the purpose of stimulating investments, helping to finance the production and commercialization of products. The researched and analyzed data were the following: the corn planted area, the corn production and its productivity, by using the data provided by the Companhia Nacional de Abastecimento (National Supply Company) - CONAB, and the rural credit granted for funding and commercialization, as provided by the Central Bank, in the period that ranges from 2006 to 2015. From these data, it has been analyzed the correlation between these variables and the behavior of the area, its production and productivity with the use of rural credit. It was verified that the planted area, as well as the corn production and productivity, presented behaviors related to rural credit, in the aforementioned period. It was also verified that in Brazil, and in all others analyzed states, they were linearly correlated with the use of rural credit for funding and with its use for investment, highlighting the relevance of rural credit to the Brazilian agricultural scenario.