O impacto do preço do diesel no transporte externo e no custo total do café nos municípios mineiros de Patrocínio e Guaxupé

Abstract

Coffee production in Brazil has great economic importance in the current scenario, making the country the largest producer of the grain globally, where a third of such production takes place on national soil. Among the factors that encompass coffee production, there is transport, responsible for taking production from the field and taking it to industries, export ports and also to the final consumer. In linear thinking, to calculate coffee transport modes, it is necessary to take into account the price of fuel, mostly Diesel and Diesel S10, which are variable costs that directly impact the pricing of the service provided. That said, the present study aimed to discover the impact of the diesel price on the cost of external transport in relation to the total cost of coffee in Brazil. The work presents itself as being descriptive, with a qualitative approach, collecting data referring to coffee through Conab – Companhia Nacional de Abastecimento – and data related to Diesel and Diesel S10 by ANP – National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels – in the from 2013 to 2020 for the cities of Patrocínio and Guaxupé. The results found show at first instance that the variables Diesel and Diesel S10 have a small variation in values for the analyzed years. The analysis also shows that external transport has a strong relationship with both fuels on the agenda, with the variable external transport and total costs presenting a significance level of 0.010 between them.