Análise de variação de preços de frutas no estado do Ceará de 2007 a 2011

Abstract

The study of fruits and their marketing is essential for planning and public funding for the advancement of the fruit production in Ceará. Thus, the purpose of this article is to analyze the seasonality in prices of fruits in the state of Ceará. The database used was the Systematic Survey of Agricultural Production - LASP, whose collection and tabulation are conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics - IBGE. The period of analysis covers the years 2007 to 2011. We analyzed the seasonality in fifteen fruit. It was observed that all the fruits studied fruit harvest showed sazonality. Moreover, it appears that there is heterogeneity in terms of price behavior, ie, some fruits begin the year with lower prices getting more expensive in the intermediate months of the year, while others start the year with high prices and ends falling in recent months. The consumer can choose the cheapest basket and what the period of the year, while the producer, in turn, can make the decision to market the fruit in other places in periods of low in Ceará.