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Coffee plantation
Guatemalan laborer working on a coffee plantation.
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The Coffee Belt
The majority of the world's coffee beans are grown between the Tropics of Cancer...
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Coffee cherries
Ripening coffee cherries on a coffee tree (Coffea), Hawaii.
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Shade-grown coffee
A worker tending to shade-grown coffee plants on a plantation in Madriz, Nicaragua....
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Sun-grown coffee
Aerial view of a sun-grown coffee plantation in Minas Gerais state in Brazil.
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Coffee harvest
Workers harvest ripe coffee cherries by hand in Central America.
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Coffee cherries harvested
Harvesting coffee cherries in Guatemala.
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Drying coffee beans
Turning coffee beans for even drying in the Costa Rican heartland, near San José.
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