Comportamento dos custos versus receitas das variedades de café: arábica e conilon

Abstract

The present work sought to analyze the relationship between the cost and revenues of the Arabica Coffee and Conilon in Brazil, from 2007 to 2016, through the survey of previous studies on the subject, secondary data from the bases of the National Company of (CONAB) and on the CEPEA/Esalq USP. It is, therefore, a descriptive research, with quantitative approach of the problem and documentary about the methods of data collection. Cost data were obtained from the CONAB website and price information on the CEPEA/Esalq USP website and handled in the IBM SPSS Statistics 20 software. When applying the correlation coefficients in the cost variable with revenue, when considering all regions of the sample results corroborated the conventional wisdom that rising costs are accompanied by revenue increases. This hypothesis was also not confirmed when segregate producing regions in a new application of the correlation coefficient, where the costs not associated fully to the recipe. It is concluded that there are other important variables in determining the price and profitability of coffee