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| Reis, Ricardo Pereira; Reis, Antonio Joao dos; Fontes, Renato Elias; Takaki, Heloisa Rosa Carvalho; Castro Junior, Luiz Gonzaga de. |
| A spreadsheet featuring production costs for coffee in different productivity ranges is presented in this study. The survey is based on the theory of costs and the study location was the southern region of the state of Minas Gerais, where data on 48 coffee production units were gathered during the 1998/99 harvest. Taking the economical indexes resulting from research into consideration, one may infer that expenses on variable resources represent the greater portion of the final cost of coffee. The items which affected production costs the most were crop formation, in the case of unvariable costs, and the expenses on labor, especially the seasonal kind. It was also concluded that coffee culture belongs to the scale-economy kind and , as a whole, the 1998/99... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Production costs; Coffee; South of Minas Gerais. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43360 |
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| Borges, Antonio Junior; Reis, Ricardo Pereira; Reis, Antonio Joao dos. |
| This study was carried out with the objective of characterizing the market structure and the commercialization of dairy products in the district of Lavras, MG, Brazil. For such study, agents were identified, their market conduct, and the prices paid and received were analyzed, as well as the volume of sales in the different market segments. It was verified that the products demanding greater technological resources, such as milk “longa vida” ( “long-life” or UHT milk ) and milk sweets are the ones that feature the largest commercialization margins. In the retail segment, supermarkets feature, in average, the lowest margins in relation to their competitors, especially “longa vida” milk. In the consumer market of milk, the sterilized product is the most... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Market structure; Commercialization; Dairy products.. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43374 |
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