Brazil – The Biggest Coffee Producer

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As discussed in this segment before, coffee is the second largest traded commodity next to petroleum. It is no surprise that a product as good as coffee is largely traded. Coffee has been pretty much the staple beverage of every country today. This time, it would be remiss not to discuss, Brazil, the biggest coffee producer in the world.

Brazil is a South American country. It is the fifth largest country by geographical area, and it is the fifth most populous country. It is situated near the equator, with an equatorial climate of 27 degrees Centigrade or 77 degrees Fahrenheit. They have the perfect geography and climate for coffee plantations. This is one of the reasons why Brazil is the biggest coffee producer in the world.

Brazil used to supply 50 percent of the world’s coffee. While that is not longer true, Brazil is till the world’s biggest coffee supplier at an estimated 30 percent of the world’s crops.

More Reasons Why Brazil is so Successful

Aside from the obvious climate reasons, Brazil is also doing a lot of things right when it comes to coffee production. Brazil also managed to employ modern industrial standards as much as they can to help in the production.

They actually employ mechanical pickers to help them harvest the coffee beans for cheap. They also use a hybrid processing method to separate the fruit pulps of the harvest from the coffee beans.

The coffee industry of Brazil also has what is called a Coffee Policy Council, where members of the council are part of the coffee grower groups, the exporters, and the local industrial users of coffee.

All of these efforts from the Brazilian government and the private sector have helped lower the production cost of coffee and it also raised the profits.

Santos the Coffee of Brazil

The name Santos is really synonymous with the coffee of Brazil. Santos is mainly grown in Sao Paolo but it is named from the main port on which it was shipped and traded. This coffee was a strain of coffee arabica brought in from Bourbon.

Santos also used to compete with the medicinal tasting Rios. Rios was also a coffee named after Rioy, mainly because of its medicinal taste. Santos was of course more popular since it is milder and tastier than any medicinal tasting coffee.

The highest grade coffee that Brazil produces is called Bourbon Santos. It is a small curly coffee bean that is dubbed as the Brazilian coffee. This is probably the coffee type you’ll get from specialty stores.

The Future for Brazilian Coffee

With a good government and private sector backing, Brazilian coffee will sure still soar up until the future. The 2010 projection of coffee production will be up to 45 million bags, with 28 million bags going to international export. These 28 million exported bags are the majority of all traded coffees in the world.

Brazilian coffee consumption has grown at a steady rate of about 2 percent to 3 percent annually in the 1990′s. But it is presumed to plateau at 1 percent in the coming years.

With a moderate to aggressive effort, and with frost and drought avoided in Brazil, the coffee production of this country seems to be still heading on a fast but steady success ahead.

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