I've been scouting commodities like sugar, wheat, coffee beans, etc. in the Federal Republic of Brazil for almost a month now.

While serving this respected reader

I'm in Londrina, 369 kilometers from Curitiba, the capital of the state of Parana

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The state of Parana lies in the southern part of the Federal Republic of Brazil.

The state of Parana alone has an area of ​​199 hundred thousand square kilometers.

In addition to being the world's number one sugar producer

Brazil is also the world's number one producer of coffee.

which produces up to 1 in 3 of the world's coffee

Brazil has up to 300,000 coffee plantations, an area equal to Nakhon Ratchasima, the largest province in Thailand (20,000 square kilometers) + Sa Kaeo Province (7.1 thousand square kilometers). It lies in the southeastern state of Paraná.

Minaschi Rais State

and the state of Sao Paulo

Coffee was introduced to Brazil by Portugal in the 18th century. Brazilian coffee flourished from the early 19th century until the 1920s. Brazil produced up to 80% of the world's coffee. Brazil's production will drop to 35 percent, but to date, Brazil is still the world's number one producer and exporter of coffee (2.65 million tons), followed by Vietnam (1.77 million tons), Colombia (810,000 tons), Indonesia ( 6.6 hundred thousand tons), Ethiopia (3.8 hundred thousand tons), while Thailand is ranked 25th (3 thousand tons).

The world coffee market grows every year.

In addition, the price of coffee is still rising, sending jumbo ass.

Making coffee a future business

As far as I patrolled in Brazil, I found that

Brazil mainly grows Arabica coffee, with 80% bourbon, catui, acaia mundo, novo, icatu, etc., and 20% robusta.

Production is May-September.

Brazil's southeastern region is ideal for growing coffee.

Because of the size of the area, the weather and the terrain is flat.

the mountain is not steep

therefore able to use heavy agricultural machinery to work well

Besides Brazil

The world talks about Vietnamese coffee more and more every day over 20 years ago.

When I turned 15 years old, my father took me on a ride from Thailand to make merit in various provinces in Vietnam. At that time, many governors of Vietnam began to promote coffee cultivation.

By reasoning that coffee is a universal crop.

Every country in the world drinks coffee.

Russian people drink

Canadians drink, Swiss people do, but coffee cannot be grown in these countries.

Once, as I clearly remember, my father and we were invited to stay at the residence of Governor Ha Tinh, a central province of Vietnam.

My father and Governor Ha Tinh at that time talked about various agricultural products.

Including rice and coffee

Also discussed that in the future, coffee will be a more universal agricultural crop than rice.

because many countries in the world do not eat rice

but eating wheat

take wheat to make bread

Wheat can be grown in cold countries.

that the United States planted

Canada has

Or even Russia grows a lot of wheat.

Governor Ha Tinh at that time

therefore joining the movement of the idea of ​​bringing coffee crops to grow everywhere in Vietnam

In the reign of King Rama III of Rattanakosin

Coffee trees were ordered from Brazil to be planted in Thailand.

By growing at Ban Pong Rad, Chanthaburi Province, coffee from Brazil that grows in Chanthaburi must be regarded as the first coffee in Thailand.

Chanthaburi coffee has been famous for over a hundred years.

But in that era, Thai people didn't drink much coffee.

As a result, Chanthaburi farmers turned to planting agricultural crops that produced better prices, such as pepper, durian, mangosteen, rambutan, etc. The reputation of Chanthaboon coffee has faded to the point that no one would have imagined that Chanthaburi was the first coffee production area in Thailand.

Today I am in Brazil.

In the mother land of the first coffee tree of Thailand.

Nitikarun Mingruchiralai