Análise de rentabilidade do café ecológico (Coffea arabica. L) da Apa de Baturité, Ceará

Abstract

The arabic coffee well-known internationally has been harvested for six decades in the area of environmental protection (apa) of baturité at ceará. The producers nowadays yield ecological coffee and are affected by the price instability, low productivity and real estate speculation. Thus, in this paper, the following objectives are proposed: characterization of the ecological coffee production process in the baturité apa; and deterministic assessment of yields according different scenarios. The data used are of the primary and secondary kind. The results suggests a production process under dry land conditions with low use of familiar labor, low use of crop techniques, insignificant use of input and high expenditure with hired labor, which indicates non familiar production. The profitability assessment by profits showed better outcomes for the mini and small land owners and also for larger and the biggest ones that use machineries to process coffee production.