A relação entre o custo da produção do milho e a inflação em grandes polos produtores, no período de 2007 a 2016

Abstract

The objective of this study is to empirically investigate, through statistical methods, the relationship between inflation variation (General price index IGP-DI) in Brazil and the costs of maize production in polo cities in Brazil from 2007 to 2016 The theoretical basis consulted questions ways of protecting itself from price variations of the commodity and its effects on the production chains that depend on this input. Thus, in the present study, the behavior of costs and inflation variation was verified in order to establish a correlation between these variations. Correlation analyzes were performed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software, in order to show if there is some kind of relationship between the aforementioned variables. The results showed that there is a correlation between corn production costs and inflation, according to the analyzed data. It was also verified that in almost all the city-polo analyzed presented correlation in all the variables, except for the agricultural pesticides (pesticides).