Coffee Origins : Brazil
Coffee Origins: Brazil - For over 150 years, Brazil has been the world's largest coffee grower. Brazil currently produces about one-third of the world's coffee, despite having a market share of up to 80% in the past.
While Brazil was still under Portuguese administration, coffee was brought to the country by French Guiana in 1727.
Francisco de Melo Palheta planted the first coffee plantation in Brazil in the Para region in the north of the country. Palheta, according to legend, went …