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Brazilian coffee industry

Brazil's coffee industry accounts for about 1/3 of the world's total output and is currently the world's largest coffee producer. Coffee plantations in Brazil cover a total area of about 27000 square kilometers, mainly in Minas Gerais, Sao Paulo and Parana in southeastern Brazil, because the environment and climate of these states provide ideal growth conditions for coffee beans.

Production and treatment Technology of Brazilian Coffee beans

In the past 150 years, Brazil has been the world's largest coffee producer, accounting for about 1/3 of the world's coffee production. In 2011, Brazil remained the world's largest coffee producer, followed by Viet Nam, Indonesia and Colombia [2]; total coffee production in Brazil in that year was 2.7 million tons, twice that of Viet Nam [3]. About 3.5 million people in Brazil are engaged in coffee farming, mainly in rural areas [4].

There are about 220000 coffee plantations in Brazil [5], and coffee plantations in the country cover a total area of about 27000 square kilometers [4], mainly in Minas Gerais, Sao Paulo and Parana in southeastern Brazil, because the environment and climate of these states provide ideal conditions for the growth of coffee beans; Minas Gerais accounts for about half of the national coffee production [6]. Most plantations harvest during the dry season from June to September. In most countries, small fruit coffee beans are treated with "washed coffee" technology, but in Brazil, almost all coffee is treated with "air-dried coffee" [8], coffee beans are dried in the sun for 8-10 days [9], and then they are classified and packaged [10].

Brazilian Coffee Export and sales

In the 1850s and 1960s, Brazilian coffee exports accounted for more than 50% of total exports of all goods [11] and 63.9% [12] in 1950, but this percentage began to decline in the 1960s because of the expansion of the market for export goods. In 1980, the ratio of Brazilian coffee exports to total exports of all goods fell to 12.3% [12] and only 2.5% in 2006 [4].

Brazil itself is the world's second-largest consumer of coffee and is expected to overtake the United States by the mid-2010s [13]. Brazil ranks 14th in per capita coffee consumption in the world [14].

In Brazil, the import of certain types of coffee beans into the country will be taxed by 10-16% [15]; the export of unprocessed coffee to the United States, the European Union and Japan will be duty-free [16]. However, the tax rate for the export of processed coffee to the European Union is 7.5%, to Japan is 10%, and to the United States is duty-free [16].