Credit intended for family farming registers a 30% drop in RS

Access to rural credit for family farming plummeted by almost 30% in Rio Grande do Sul between July and November of this year, compared to the same period in 2024. The data were released by the Federation of Agricultural Workers (Fetag-RS), which points to a combination of factors for the contraction, including increasing indebtedness, low prices, and successive losses caused by climatic events. “Farmers have been suffering crop losses for 5 years, not having a full harvest, losing to floods or drought. And now this year we have a good production, a good production of rice, good production of wheat, and an excellent production of milk, but at the same time we do not have a price for the products,” explains the president of Fetag, Carlos Joel da Silva. According to Joel da Silva, rice is being traded between R$ 54 and R$ 55, while the production cost varies from R$ 87 to R$ 90. In wheat, the scenario is similar: the value paid to the producer does not cover the expenses of the ...