Coffee Belt
Millions of people wake up on the morning and enjoy a great cup of coffee before they jump in to each others business. But only a few people are aware of the origin of coffee they are sipping. Geographically speaking the world is sub-divided in to equatorial regions. And the specific areas are Central and South America, Africa and the Middle East, and of course Southeast Asia. They are labelled as the “Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn”, the “coffee bean belt” where all commercially grown coffee are produced. The best coffee beans in the world come from these regions because of their rich soil, moist tropical climate with high altitudes and the perfect temperatures amiable for growing the best coffees in the planet.
Coffee snack
And one of the top producing countries is Brazil, responsible for about a third of all coffee being produced. Another country is Columbia, where its coffees grow in moist climate, high altitude foothills of Andes with the combined ambient make a especially mild cup. In Indonesia, top-grade grown on Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi and Flores and the rest of the archipelago is also the world’s producer of robusta beans. A large source of coffee imports also come from Mexico, where 100,000 small farms produce Mexican coffee. Also part of the coffee belt is Ethiopia, were arabica tree legends come from and about 12 million people in Ethiopia make their living from coffee.
In the world of coffee the geographic origins of coffee resemble flavour. And there a lot of things to talk about about on your favorite coffee if you know where it originated and where it is grown. The three growing regions below represent the source of all arabica coffee beans each one delivering its own unique flavour profile.