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Growing Coffee Tree expansion

Football, this is the most prominent symbol of Brazil. Coffee is another label in Brazil. Today, coffee has become an indispensable necessity in Brazilian life, but looking back in history, coffee is more than just a simple after-dinner drink for Brazil. It brought great vitality and vitality to this land (blog, Weibo), promoted progress and civilization, and, of course, Brazilians were deeply hurt by it.

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Coffee appeared relatively late in Brazil, but once it entered Brazil, it brought all-round changes to the land and the people who live in it.

Around 1727, the first coffee seed was introduced from French Guiana to Para, and coffee was quickly grown in the Amazon. Since then, the green wave of coffee trees has spread, reaching a peak in the mid-19th century and rapidly replacing the declining sugar industry as Brazil's new pillar industry. Because of the comprehensive changes it has brought to Brazilian society over the next few hundred years, it can be said that the introduction and cultivation of coffee is one of the most important changes in Brazilian history.

The cultivation of coffee soon brought all-round social and economic changes to Brazil. first, it saved Brazil from the Great Depression, promoted the abolition of evil slavery, and gave birth to the Republic of Brazil.

Before coffee began to be planted on a large scale, it was the sugar industry, which mainly grew sugar cane, that dominated Brazil's domestic economy. In the 30 years before the mid-16th century, the sugar industry brought huge economic benefits to Brazil and benefited the Portuguese, its sovereign state. However, since 1650, a large number of other countries and regions in the Caribbean have joined the industry, resulting in a sharp decline in Brazilian sugar industry earnings, even to an unsustainable point-in the last 20 years of the 17th century, Brazilian sugar industry earnings fell by 2/3, which led Brazil into a period of Great Depression.

Since then, although gold panning and aquaculture have become the lifeblood of the Brazilian economy, none of them has been able to maintain long-term and large-scale prosperity and really save Brazil from the Great Depression. It is the large-scale cultivation of coffee and the sale of a large amount of coffee all over the world.

The green waves swept down with mixed feelings.

In the newly reclaimed land, coffee trees carefully cared for by workers are thriving, and they can grow to about 6 feet tall in three years and begin to bear fruit. But it takes six years to reach maximum production capacity-each tree can bear 3 to 4 pounds of fruit, and their fruiting time is between 15 and 20 years, depending on the soil and climate.

Huge profits spurred Brazilians to use more land to grow this cash crop, and the green waves of coffee trees began to spread uncontrollably across the land. Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and the vast western part of Sao Paulo have joined the ranks of coffee growers, and eventually formed the coffee troika that controls Brazil's political and economic lifeline, which is still the main political situation in Brazil.

With the frantic expansion of the planting area of coffee trees in Brazil, Brazilians quickly discovered the crisis of overcapacity, and the government banned the planting of new coffee trees for five years, but previously speculative large-scale planting, so that Brazilian coffee production is still growing at a high rate beyond world consumption. In 1905, 10 million bags of coffee were in stock in Brazil. In order to prevent the influx of excess coffee into the market and lead to a fall in coffee prices, the government began to hoard coffee intentionally, but hoarding coffee requires a lot of money and manpower, which has put many small planters on the verge of bankruptcy and a large number of ordinary Brazilian workers have been displaced. Since then, although the Brazilian government has been trying to maintain this balance between production and consumption, its over-reliance on international markets has made Brazil's economy often experience roller coaster turmoil.