Brazil Cerrado Coffee Beans

Cerrado coffee is generally clean with a good body (creamy mouthfeel), low acidity, well-balanced, and often exhibiting a nutty and even slightly caramelly flavor when light-roasted, perhaps even malty, though more chocolaty if given a darker roast.

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Coffee Growing in the Cerrado Region

Coffee growing elevations in the Cerrado region average about 850 meters and the growing areas are huge, providing large quantities of coffee.

Mechanical harvesting and mass processing are the norm with Cerrado coffee, providing large amounts of coffee which is exported from the country.

Mechanical Coffee Harvesting

The relatively flat topography of the Cerrado region makes it possible to utilize mechanical harvesting while also assuring some consistency of quality in choosing the optimal time to pick the coffee beans, which generally do not ripen all at once - different fruit ripen at different times over a period of one to four months.

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Green Coffee Production

Year	60kg bags	Coffee grown
2016	55,000,000 bags	7,260,000,000 pounds
2015	50,375,656 bags	6,649,586,632 pounds
2014	52,298,979 bags	6,903,465,188 pounds
2013	54,698,083 bags	7,220,146,996 pounds
2012	55,420,225 bags	7,315,469,700 pounds

Green Coffee Exports

Year	60kg bags	Coffee exported
2016	0	0 pounds
2015	36,915,660	4,872,867,120 pounds
2014	36,875,980	4,867,629,360 pounds
2013	32,761,080	4,324,462,560 pounds
2012	29,285,230	3,865,650,360 pounds

Data may not be available for the most recent year.
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Facts

Brazil is the #1 largest coffee growing country in the world, in 2015 they...
produced 6,649,586,632 lbs
exported 4,872,867,120 lbs
That's over 73% exported!

Sounds like a lot? It's actually 33.3% of the coffee grown worldwide.

Brazil coffee is grown on mountainside "fincas" (farms) at 400 to 1600 meters above sea level
(that's 1,312 to 5,250 ft)


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