The Family Agriculture in the local power - Performance the PRONAF Infrastructure and Municipal Services

Abstract

The family agriculture was constituted, in elapsing of the years 1990, in an of the main axes of the discussions on the Brazilian agrarian subject. In the institutional ambit, the creation of the National Program of Invigoration of the Family Agriculture represented the official recognition, in terms of national agricultural politics, of the economic and social importance of that category of producers in the rural way. From among the lines of action of the program, stands out, under the perspective of the local development, PRONAF Infra-estrutura and Municipal Services. In that action line, the financed municipal infrastructure works should assist to the demands of the family producers, represented by means of the rural associations in the Municipal Council of Rural Development. In that way, it was verified that in the municipal districts of Alfredo Marcondes and Álvares Machado, located in Geographical Microrregião of Presidente Prudente, the introduce of that program contributed to dynamic the actions of the associations of existent rural producers in these places, reinforcing its political importance close to as instance of the family farmers’ representation the other spheres of the local power.