Estudio económico del proceso de tecnificación de las unidades de producción del sector cafetero en el departamento Norte de Santander.

Abstract

Technification may improve Regional coffee sector competitiveness, increasing its current level of production and profitability.The acknowledgment of its benefits will tackle the transition towards this type of crop. The aim of the research was to economically assess the process of technification units of the coffee sector in Norte De Santander.The type of research implemented was quantitative, correlational, field and descriptive –oriented.The target population was a sample of 376 coffee sowers from the department of Norte De Santander, ColombiaThe instruments and technique of data collection were the questionnaire and a survey respectively, for the data analysis descriptive statistics was used. The variables selected helped to characterize the cost structure of the companies that produced coffee in Norte De Santander from the theory and the documents provided. Likewise the variables of the context that affect the cost of the companies of the sector were identified, the cost and availabity of workforce, as well as, the cost of supplies are the items that have the bigger impact over the cost of production. Using the historical data of the coffee market demand for exportation, the implementation of the descriptive statistics and the regression analysis, the expected development of the monthly demand was established .and from its mathematical representation, there years is the estimated amount of time expected. Guidelines were proposed from the results gathered to assess economically the process of technification of the units of the coffee production sector in The department of Norte de Santander and thus make better use of the tools available to track the cost and benefits that this economic sector provides.