Acesso ao crédito ABC e Recuperação de Pastagens em Minas Gerais: uma análise da correlação entre as Estruturas Produtivas e Produtividade

Abstract

Pasture recovery is essential for the sustainability of livestock farming, since degradation reduces soil organic matter, vegetation cover, and the nutritional quality of forage. Inadequate management compromises productive vigor and increases greenhouse gas emissions. In this sense, this work aims to understand whether the productive structures of the mesoregions of Minas Gerais correlate with the contracting of credit for pasture recovery and with productivity levels. By productive structures, the study refers to the set of institutions, organizations, and services that support the agricultural production process, including financial institutions, input resellers, agricultural cooperatives, and technical assistance and rural extension services that are heterogeneously distributed across the mesoregions of Minas Gerais. To this end, Spearman's correlation coefficient is used, a non-parametric method that measures the associations between variables through ranks. The analysis considers information on the number of financial institutions, input resellers, agricultural cooperatives, and Emater technicians present in each mesoregion, correlating these indicators with the volume of credit contracted and productivity levels. The study is supported by a broad literature review, which includes agricultural modernization processes, the functioning of rural credit in Brazil, climate change, and low-carbon agriculture. The results indicate that productive structures did not correlate with credit for pasture recovery, with the more structured regions having received fewer resources on average. On the other hand, a positive correlation is identified between productive structures and productivity, with more structured regions registering a higher number of animals per hectare.