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Brazil grows Arabica and Robusta, but mainly Arabica, most of which are dried. Both the equator and the southern line of regression cross Brazil, so the Brazilian landmass is located in the tropics, with about 8 million hectares of land used to grow coffee. Robusta is planted in areas facing north, where the climate is less hot and the plain is flatter, to avoid more direct sunlight.

The quality of coffee improves as you go south, and the best Arabica is grown on the higher plains, but these plateaus are close to the edge of the tropical zone, and frost damage is often a destructive problem, if not a major disaster. When a frost warning is issued in southern Brazil, the price of international coffee trade soars in response to expected shortages.

Brazil's Arabica is not usually included in the gourmet grade or professional coffee rankings. Indeed, when experts are forced to compare and make general descriptions of very different varieties, most of them will say that Brazilian coffee is of medium quality, low to moderate acidity, light or tasteless. This is a fairly accurate overview of most of the tens of thousands of beans exported from Brazil. The quality problem is partly due to Brazil's wide area to allow large-scale planting, harvest is no longer "harvesting" at all; it may be "stripping" or even mechanical harvesting. Either way, the mixed plant fruit diet includes a wide range of mature coffee fruits, and it is likely that subsequent classification will not produce a truly equal rate of return.

The best Brazilian coffee comes from young trees of the bourbon < bourbon > variety, whose small, round beans produce the best coffee, with fine acidity and sweetness. When the Brazilian bourbon number is harvested several times, the coffee beans become larger and lose some flavor; the coffee bean cup is called "flat Santos" < flat bean Santos >.

Brazilian coffee once accounted for 60% of the world's output and was the standard "additive" for almost every kind of blended coffee in the world. Interestingly, the International Coffee Organization's preliminary statistics on the 1998 harvest listed the average "unit price" of Brazilian exports at US $110.95 per pound, which is very close to the world average price of 110.05 cents per pound of coffee.