An introduction to the background of small coffee producing areas in Brazil's Bahia Hilado and Bahia Plateau.

Bahia Cerrado da Bahia is famous for its large-scale, industrial and artificially irrigated coffee. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, it was part of a government-encouraged agricultural program that provided preferential credit and incentives that attracted about 600 farmers to move here. By 2006, there were 1.5 million males here.