Comparabilidade dos custos e preços na cultura do café arábica e conilon

Abstract

The coffee culture has great relevance in the Brazilian economic scenario, which is a representative producer and exporter of this product worldwide. Therefore, farmers are increasingly looking for new management models in agribusiness to achieve greater competitiveness and profitability. The purpose of this study is to analyze the production costs of two variations of coffee, arabica coffee and conilon coffee, in the productive phase of the tillage, compared to the selling price of the 60 kg bag and if the type of coffee impacts the analyzed values. This is a descriptive, with quantitative approach and documentary research, using data from Agrianual of selling price and production costs of coffee in the period from 2009 to 2018. For analysis were used the statistical tools: Mann-Whitney, Shapiro-Wilk, Spearman and Pearson tests. The results indicated that variable ‘selling price’ and twelve cost variables showed statistically significant variance reinforcing that costs and prices vary according to the type of coffee. Therefore, information can be provided to the manager/rural producer for better management and profitability forecast according to the choice of coffee variety.