Management and perpetuity of family farming enterprises

The study aims to understand to what extent according to the perception of family farmers and social actors of institutions linked to the sector the use of rural credit via the Family Farming Strengthening Program - Pronaf can contribute to promoting improvements in the management of family farming enterprises as well as their perpetuity in the municipality of Pinhalzinho/Santa Catarina/Brazil. Rural enterprises in general and family farming enterprises in particular require efficient and effective management practices that are able to ensure their sustainability in the current context of continuous transformation competitiveness and complexity. Rural succession becomes one of the main challenges in the dynamics of family farming especially with regard to the conditions of permanence of youth in the field. However public policies are created with the intention of intervening in the face of social problems and or encouraging certain sectors or people. The recognition of the economic and social importance of family farming in Brazil has its landmark in 1996 when the Pronaf an agricultural policy of rural credit was created.