- Brazil is by far the world's biggest producer of coffee.
- A plant takes between four to five years to produce coffee cherries.
- Coffee production is an all-year-round process.
Brazil produces one-third of the coffee consumed around the world.
Matas de Minas is a small region in Brazil that produces artisanal coffee.
Coffee is sun-dried and moved around several times a day for two to three weeks.
The production of coffee employs over 8 million people in the country.
Produced by Amanda Villa-Lobos