Biggest Coffee Producers (Top world coffee producers)
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My cup of coffee can come from one of the 5 biggest coffee producers in the world but can also come from 48 other countries that produce coffee.
The biggest world producer is Brazil, who makes about 15% of the coffee global market. It is said that most coffee imported in the United States comes from this country. The majority of Brazil exports are known as Brazilian Naturals which is an unwashed Arabica. The best beans are Bourbon Santos and Bahia.
Some experts speak about the quantity taking over quality in Brazilian production of coffee. Also, International Coffee Organization says that "bad weather (...) could affect production quality" for the year of 2010/2011.
After Brazil comes Vietnam which, for the second consecutive year has placed itself in a second position, taking Colombia's place. Vietnam produces mostly Robusta, which is the cheapest coffee bean for importers. Then comes Indonesia (with Java and Sumatra), Colombia (with its Colombian Milds, the best beans in the world, according with coffee specialists, mostly known for Bogota, Medellin and Supremo) and ...another surprise...India, taking Mexico's 5th place. India's most known beans are Mysore and Monsooned Malabar.
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The 5 biggest coffee producers are (for 2009/20010)
1. Brazil - 39 470
2 Vietnam - 18 000
3. Indonesia - 10 700
4. Colombia - 9 000
5. India - 4 827
The numbers represent thousands of bags 1 bag of coffee = 152.12 lb or 69 kg.
Other producers:
Africa: Cameron, Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
Asia & Oceania: Papua New Guinea, Thailand
Mexico and Central: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua
South America Ecuador, Peru
The coffee industry classifies the beans into four groups: Colombian Milds, Other Milds, Brazilian Naturals and Robusta. The top three are actually Arabica coffee.
There are 2 species of coffee largely produced in 53 countries around the world: Coffea arabica or Arabica Coffee and Coffea Canephora or Robusta Coffee. There are notable differences between these 2 species of plants like the roots depth, the temperature they best mature, the amount of beans they yield, the caffeine content of the bean and many others.
The best known Arabica are Blue Mountain (Jamaica and Kenya), Mundo Novo (Brazil), Kent (India), Catuai (Brazil).
The type of coffee produced in 2009:
Arabica coffee leads with 73.092 bags
Robusta produced 50.054 bags
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The world consumption of coffee is steady increasing with 2 million of bags (of coffee) per year. that is almost 2% of the annual number.
The biggest consumers are: (in kilogrammes per capita) 1kilogram = 2.2 pounds
#1 can you believe it?
1. Luxembourg - 25.55
2. Finland - 12.62
3. Switzerland - 9.15
4. Norway - 8.99
5. Sweden - 8.28
US consumption is 4.17, on the same level with Spain or Portugal. For comparison here are Italy, with 5.98, Japan with 3.33, Canada with 5.80, and Romania with 3.79. Russian Federation has one of the lowest percentage, only 1.58, on the same level as Ireland and Poland.
Special events
99th Annual Convention of National Coffee Association will take place in Ritz Carlton Laguna Niguel, Dana Point, California between 18 and 20 of March
The 22nd Annual Exhibition of Speciality Coffee will take place in Anaheim, California, between 15 and 18th of April
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Hi Rebecca,thank you for stopping and reading my hub. Vietnam comes from behind but I think it has to improve its quality too. some countries produce cheaper coffee which is not bad if they keep an acceptable quality.
Informative hub. ChronosCoffee carries blends from all over the world- a lot of them are organic but they only carry the best!
Mike Chronos, looks like this store carries one of my favourite: Costa Rica Tarazzu. Thank you for stopping and commenting on my hub.
It is interesting to know more about my favorite beverage. Thanks.
PaperNotes, in my case, the more I know about coffee the more I like it. Thank you for stopping.
Another excellent article about coffee. Very informative read!
Thank you Ray.
How abt Ethiopian organic coffee .Actually Ethiopia is the Birth place of Coffee Arabica ,to my surprise there is no major coffee producing area but this coffee went through Yemen to the rest of the world and got his adopted name .It should be named coffee Abisinica .
go ethiopia
Rebecca E. 2 years ago
You know Vietnam surprised me quite a bit being on teh list of the top five producers, but once I thought about it, it made sense.