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Brazil is the world's most important producer of raw coffee beans, accounting for about 1% of the world's total output. Although its output has been surpassed by Vietnam in recent years, its important position in the global coffee market is still difficult to shake. Because its exports of raw coffee beans are all Arabica (Brazil's small amount of Robusta coffee is not enough for its domestic consumption. Vietnam exports the vast majority of raw coffee beans). In addition, Brazil is the second largest coffee consumer in the world after the United States, and its consumption is close to that of the United States and has a tendency to exceed it.

In recent years, especially since 2001, China's coffee consumption market has grown rapidly, which has been concerned by coffee associations such as global coffee producers, coffee machine and coffee product manufacturers, European Fine Coffee Association and American Fine Coffee Association. After all, China may be the coffee consumer market with the greatest growth potential.

Shanghai International Food, Beverage and Catering equipment Exhibition is held every November at the New National Exhibition in Pudong, Shanghai. At the just-concluded FHC China Exhibition (November 13-15, 2013), we saw many Central and South American coffee associations and enterprises, such as Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and so on. The Brazilian Fine Coffee Association and the Coffee Professional Committee of the Shanghai Food Association also held a "Brazilian boutique coffee tasting meeting" on November 16th. Mr. Javier Faus Neto has been a good friend of mine for more than a decade, exporting more than 6000 20-foot containers of coffee beans every year. Henrique Leivas Sloper de Arujo's farm produces organic coffee, not to mention the "special coffee" that has not yet appeared in the Chinese market.

Brazil has 21 states and 17 states produce coffee, but four of them produce the largest, accounting for 98 per cent of national production: Parana, Sao Paulo, Minas Gerais and Espirito Santo, with the southern state producing the most, accounting for 50 per cent of total production.

Since the introduction of coffee trees from French Guiana (Guyana) in 1720, coffee production has gradually become a science, and the Brazilian Coffee Institute is also the most important coffee research institution in the world, producing more new varieties of coffee than any other country.