Terra Brasil Program releases more than R$58 million for rural workers in 2022

From January to June this year, R$58,99 million of resources from the Land and Agrarian Reform Fund were released through Terra Brasil - National Land Credit Program (Terra Brasil – PNCF). Of the 529 operations analyzed during this period by the Department of Land Credit Management (Decred) of the Secretariat of Family Agriculture and Cooperatives of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (SAF/ Mapa), 62,4% were in the Northeast region; 14,4% in the South; 13,4% in the Southeast and 9,6% in the Central-West. 

The program is expected to benefit more than 400 farmers in accessing land by the end of 2022.

Terra Brasil – PNCF is a set of actions and projects, complementary to agrarian reform, which offers conditions so that farmers without access to land or with little land can buy rural property through rural credit financing, coming from the resources of the Land and Agrarian Reform Fund, and basic investments and integrated by the Rural Poverty Combat Subprogram.

The program's main objective is access to land, contributing to the generation of income, food security and strengthening family farming. In addition to the land, the financed resources can be used to structure the property and contract Technical Assistance and Rural Extension (Ater). The entire hiring procedure takes place through partnerships between federal, state and municipal governments.

Who can participate

Non-owner rural workers, preferably salaried workers, partners, squatters and tenants who can demonstrate at least five years of experience in rural activity can participate in Terra Brasil. The program also includes farmers who own properties whose area does not reach the size of their family property and is proven to be insufficient to generate income capable of supporting themselves and their families.

Terra Brasil allows ages between 18 and 70, who can prove they have at least five years of experience in rural activities in the last 15 years, and young people aged 16 and under 18, as long as they are duly emancipated. Young people aged between 16 and 19 must prove two years of experience in family farming, as a member of a family group or as a student at a technical school, in Family Alternation Training Centers, including similar ones.

The farmer cannot be a public employee, nor have he been a settler under the agrarian reform, or have participated in any program that has resources from the Land and Agrarian Reform Fund. He also cannot have owned a rural property larger than a family property in the last three years. 

For more information about access to the program, contact the Department of Land Credit Management (Decred/SAF) by email at terra.brasil@agro.gov.br or by phone at (61) 3276-4104.