Coffee Facts
If you Look at a map of the world you can pretty much highlight all of the major coffee producing countries, the majority of them lie within the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. These two imaginary dividing lines lie apart with the equator in between with this entire stretch is often called the bean belt.
The areas within the belt are ideal for the growing of coffee because they have a steady moderate temperature of around 20˚C. The soil is porous and rich in nutrients and adding the steady supply of rain and sunshine, you have the conditions that the coffee plants love. For the most part, Arabica coffee beans are the most harvested with about 65-70% of the exportation with Robusta beans accounting for the rest but more on the different types of beans another time…Heres a little some thing on a couple of the predominant coffee growing countries, the first and the largest…
Ethiopia The African country of Ethiopia still hangs in there with the coffee giants to produce some of the world’s tastiest coffees. They export quite a bit of Arabica, up to 4 or 5 million bags a year. Ethiopian coffee is generally quite fruity in its taste
Brazil
Brazil got a later start in coffee production, several centuries after its discovery in Ethiopia. However, they have more than made up for lost time becoming the largest exporter of coffee in the world. Based on numbers of bags, they produce around 25 million a year, about 1/3 of the world’s coffee supply. Brazilian coffee can be nutty, sweet, low-acid, and develop exceptional bittersweet and chocolate roast tastes.
more to come when I get all the info together and my fingers get tired from typing and the caffeine isnt wearing off…
thanks to theoatmeal for the picture…
