Coffee production: Quick Facts

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A Guatemalan boy wearing a cap carries a large sack on his back while walking through rows of coffee plants with red berries on a plantation.

World map highlighting the coffee belt, a brown band between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn where coffee grows best. Major coffee-producing countries within this belt are labeled, including Mexico, Honduras, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Ethiopia, Uganda, India, Vietnam, and Indonesia.

Coffee cherries

A worker in a plaid shirt and cap harvests coffee beans among dense green coffee plants on a plantation in Madriz, Nicaragua.

Sun-grown coffee

Coffee cherries harvested

Drying coffee beans

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