The State Programme for Young Rural Entrepreneurs aims to benefit young entrepreneurs between the ages of 16 and 29 who work in rural areas and with low family income. The Programme aims to prepare young people to play a strategic role as agents of rural development and has the following objectives: foster the transformation of young people into entrepreneurial leaders; enhance the productive activities of young children of family farmers, combining training, technical assistance, and access to credit; encourage the development of productive projects to be developed by young farmers as a way to provide alternative employment and income sources; expand skills, knowledge, and practices that enable efficient business management of agricultural businesses, promoting entrepreneurship, leadership, cooperatives, planning, the use of production techniques, marketing, rural businesses, and governance; encourage the development of skills related to non-agricultural activities with potential for expansion in rural areas; encourage young people and their families to structure a governance strategy for family succession; expand understanding of sustainable rural development, agricultural practices, regional cultures, public policies for family farming, social organization and management; encourage the use of traditional knowledge, combined with technological innovations and tools for associative management of rural activities, etc.
Brésil · 2024-12-11