Brazil is the world’s largest coffee-producing country

There are more than 70 countries that produce coffee in the world, and Brazil leads those countries as the largest coffee producer in the world. In fact, this country has been the world’s largest coffee-producing country for more than 150 years! The amount of coffee produced in Brazil takes one-third of all the coffee produced worldwide, and it is almost double the amount of coffee in second-place Vietnam. In 2020, Brazil produced 3,558,000 metric tons (7,844,000,000 pounds) of coffee. Coffee beans produced in Brazil fall into 2 types: the arabica variety and the robusta variety.

So, what could be the factors that are behind this incredible number? There are approximately 3.5 million people who are involved in the coffee industry in Brazil. And coffee is planted in around 220,000 coffee farms, mostly in Minas Gerais (1.22 million hectares); Espírito Santo (433,000 hectares); São Paulo (216,000 hectares); Bahia (171,000 hectares); Rondônia (95,000 hectares); and Paraná (49,000 hectares). The overall area is about 10,000 square miles (27,000 sq km), which is almost the size of Belgium! One fact about these farms is that the coffee farms in Brazil are generally a lot flatter than in other countries, which provides the opportunity for stripping the plants using a machine.