Performance of Rural Credit in the Municipalities of Rondônia, Brazilian Amazon

In this work, objective issues stand out, such as the survey of the number of contracts granted for the agricultural activity in the years 2000 and 2010, classified as "costing" and "investment", and the survey of the volume of financial resources released for agricultural activity in 2000 and 2010, classified as “costing” and “investment” for the municipalities in the micro-region of Vilhena.Based on the institutional incentive of the Brazilian rural development policy (rural credit), granted to the agricultural sector, through financial availability, it was defined as a general objective to analyze the situation of the municipalities in the microregion of Vilhena, State of Rondônia, in order to identify the possible livestock development process. This is an applied, descriptive, cross-sectional research with a quantitative approach. Based on the data analyzed and based on the concept that the cost is linked to the maintenance of what already exists and the investment is expansion, it can be said that there were, in general, investments aimed at strengthening the livestock activity in the microregion, proving the hypothesis of the development of livestock in the microregion of Vilhena.