Little Facts on Coffee Beans

Coffee bean is the seed of a shrub called cherry coffee. This tree measures between 3.2 to 6 meters. The tree begins to bear fruit between 3.1 and 5.2 years. Its production is around 2.2 kilos per coffee tree over a period that can span 30 to 50 years.
When is coffee collected?
Coffee is collected in the second half of the year, when the coffee cherry has reached its maturity and the color begins to change from green to red.
How do you collect the coffee cherry?
The cherry is handpicked, as in Colombia and throughout Central America. This procedure is more expensive and tedious, but the harvested grain reaches a higher quality, since only the cherries that are ripe are collected.
Trivia Question: How many coffee cherries are needed to produce 1 kilo of coffee bean?
Answer: The coffee cherry has two coffee beans, which is to say that we need 1000 cherry for each kilo of coffee.
Coffee Production: Major Coffee Producing Areas
The tree is grown in subtropical climates and in areas between 600 and 1700 meters above sea level. The coffee producing countries are in the continents of Africa, Middle East and South America, always about 25 ° from the line of Equator.
Coffee is the second most exported product in the world after oil. The largest producer is Brazil, followed by Colombia, but the latter country is first in the production of Arabica coffee.
Classification of coffee for sale from the commercial point of view:
� Colombian soft: They represent 19.5% of the total trade of coffee. They are produced in Colombia, Kenya and Tanzania.
� Other Soft: assumes 22% of coffee for sale. Producing areas are: Mexico, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador. Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Rwanda, India, Australia.
� Brazilian and other Arabs: Represent 40% of coffee wholesale world trade. Brazil leads this group, followed by Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay and Ethiopia.
� Robusta: Account for 24% of the total coffee wholesale market. They are produced in Indonesia, Trinidad Tobago, Ghana, Guinea. Liberia, Nigeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Angola, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Zaire.
The canephora robusta coffee was discovered in the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) in the late nineteenth century. It grew wild in the forests of tropical Africa. Today it is grown mainly in Africa but is also cultured in India, Indonesia, Madagascar, Brazil and the Philippines. The robusta variety is is best grown in plains and likes the humid tropical climate.

Gourmet roasted beans from the Coffee Beans Shop are hand-selected and roasted in-house at the Chillin Cafe on Queensland�s Gold Coast.
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