Which countries are the most suitable for growing coffee trees?

Coffee trees [2] prefer mild temperatures during the day and less than two hours of direct sunshine.

Coffee tree

Coffee tree

So if there is a lack of afternoon showers or fog to check in every day, local farmers will have to plant many taller trees in the coffee garden for shade. At night, they want an environment of about ten degrees Celsius but not too low, because too warm will make the coffee berries grow too fast to produce small, strong, hard and high-quality coffee beans; in case it is too cold to frost, the coffee trees will freeze to death.

Based on these characteristics, the promised land suitable for Arabica coffee is mostly located in countries with alpine terrain between the Tropic of Cancer, which is also known as the coffee belt (Coffee Zone/Coffee belt).

As an elegant, fashionable and high-grade beverage, coffee has long been popular all over the world, and it has been listed as the first of the three major beverages (coffee, tea and cocoa) in the world. Coffee has been planted in 76 countries and regions all over the world. In 1983-1984 alone, the world's coffee output reached as much as 5.5 million tons, with an export volume of 4.2 million tons, of which Brazil in South America, known as the "coffee kingdom", produced and exported the most. In spite of this, the hometown of coffee is not in Brazil, but in Ethiopia in Africa. to this day, there is still a large area of wild coffee forest in the dense jungle of the southwestern province of Cafa. The word "coffee" comes from the place name "Kafa". [3]

Geographical distribution editing

Coffee grows mostly in countries with alpine terrain between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Cancer. Tropical Africa, introduced and cultivated in South and Southwest China