Estudo econômico da cafeicultura no Sul de Minas Gerais

Abstract

The present work had as objective identifing the main economical resources used in the coffee productive process, as well as elaborating a production cost spreadsheet proposal. Basing upon the cost andproduction, theory this research aimed to estimate the coffee (Coffea arábica L.) production costs. For three productivity strata, using traditional management system and organic coffee management. The data from coffee growers adopting the traditional management system were obtained from the 98/99 crop, where as those of the organic management system were from the 99/00 crop. The study área covers several cities in South of Minas Gerais. For both management system, the variable resource expense was the one which most increase the final cost. The invés that most affected the production costs were the plantation formation, and labor expenses. It was also, concluded that the coffee growing has a positive response towards both management system shwoed a picture ofeconomical profit.