Factores Económicos Que Determinan La Comercialización De Carne De Res Durante Los Años 2021, 2022 y 2023 en Colombia

Abstract

The general objective of this research is to determine the main economic factors that caused an increase in the price of beef during the years 2021, 2022 and the running months of 2023, with a quantitative approach of a correlational and explanatory type. After being organized, they were exported to the RStudio software to make the due process of data treatment that allowed the construction of different saturated models that allowed clarifying the relation of the price of beef with respect to the variables: price of pork, price of pork, exports and imports of beef, consumer price index, quantity of slaughtered cattle and internal consumption of beef monthly in Colombia. A concise interview was conducted with an expert on the subject, to support and provide information about other possible factors affecting the price of the protein in question, whether measurable or not. It turned out that the variables with the greatest relationship to the dependent variable are the price of pork, the price of chicken meat and Tr1. Concluding that the increase in beef prices, allow the markets for substitute goods to gain strength and consumers move towards them seeking to satisfy their needs in the same way. And that the entry of an external player such as Minerva Foods could be considered the major factor determining the change in the beef market.