Brazil is the world’s largest coffee producer and has been for over 150 years. Over one third of the world coffee is grown in Brazil.Coffee was introduced from French Guiana in the early 18th Century. Coffee production boomed in the early 19th Century and has gone through various booms and slumps since. Since Brazil is such a dominant supplier of the world’s coffee, anything affecting production has had a knock on effect on global pricing.

Brazil is one of the world’s primary producers of Robusta coffee along with Arabica. Though the most advanced and industrialized coffee producing country in the world, Brazil has not retained a reputation for producing coffees of the highest quality. This has to do predominantly with harvesting techniques which remain crude and haphazard in some growing areas. Better Brazilian coffees tend to be low in acidity, heavy in body and sweet, often.