Where does coffee originate from?
Coffee is originally from EthiopiaThe coffee tree grows wild in the high forests of south-western Ethiopia, at an altitude of 1,300 to 2,000 metres above sea level.
It is also the place where the first coffee trees in the 11th century and where the energetic properties of coffee were discovered by the Galla tribe, who mixed coffee with animal fat.
Current coffee cultivation
Today, coffee is grown in tropical and subtropical areas of Africa, the Americas and Asia.
The coffee growing is concentrated in 7 main countries, from which 80% of the world's coffee production, or about 8 million tonnes of coffee, originates. These countries are: Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Honduras, and India..
Brazil accounts for one third of the world's coffee production, making it the world's largest coffee producing country.
Today, there are more than 25 million family farms in some eighty different countries growing approximately 15 billion coffee trees. One 65% of Arabica coffee and one 35% of Robusta coffee.
The 2.25 billion cups of coffee consumed every day in the world are produced from this harvest.
The coffee belt
As mentioned in the previous paragraph, coffee cultivation is mainly concentrated in the tropical zone. More specifically, in a 4,000 km strip of land delimited by the tropics, the Tropic of Cancer above and the Tropic of Capricorn below, thus forming the "Coffee belt.
This crop has been adapted to each country, taking advantage of the benefits offered by each terrain and the climate of each region to choose the most suitable coffee plant.
The main coffee-producing countries are concentrated in the tropics, in the "Coffee Belt".
Tell us, do you know where the coffee you drink every morning comes from?
