2025/26 Harvest Plan: hiring in the first eight months falls 12.6% compared to the same period of the previous cycle.

In the first eight months of operation of the 2025/26 Harvest Plan, that is, between July 2025 and February 2026, the amount contracted in rural credit reached R$ 227.46 billion, a value 12.6% lower than that recorded in the same period of the previous harvest, which was R$ 260.23 billion. For this cycle, a total of R$ 594.4 billion was made available for financing. The survey is included in the Rural Credit Report, produced by the Technical Management of Human Development of the Ocepar System (Getec) in partnership with the consulting firm Fator Agro, based on data from the Central Bank of Brazil. The bulletin also shows the evolution of rural credit in recent years: in the 2023/24 Harvest Plan, the amount contracted was R$ 415.46 billion, while in the following cycle (2024/25) it totaled R$ 377.99 billion, revealing a trend of reduction in the contracted volume, largely reflecting the increase in interest rates due to the rise in the Selic rate. :: Sources In the accumulated total of the first eight months of the 2025/26 Harvest Plan, the resources applied to rural credit originate from various sources, the main one being Free Resources, which account for 37% of the total. Following this, the Mandatory Resources (23%), LCA (15%), Rural Savings (9%), Constitutional Funds (10%), BNDES (6%) and Other Sources (3%) stand out. The data, released by the Central Bank of Brazil, highlight the diversification of financing sources available to the rural sector. Brazilian cooperatives contracted approximately R$ 30.7 billion in rural financing during the initial period of the 2025/26 harvest. Of this total, cooperatives in Paraná account for approximately 30% (R$ 9.33 billion), reinforcing Paraná's relevance in the national rural credit scenario.

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