DESCRIPTION

Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, the seeds of berries from certain flowering plants in the Coffea genus.

Kenya produces high quality Arabica coffee (80-100 points on the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) quality scale).

The product is available as:

• Green Beans
• Roasted
• Packaged

Grading is as follows:

• AA: Screen size of 7.2 Millimetres (size 18). This grade of coffee is priced higher  than other grades
• AB: Screen size of 6.8 Millimetres (size 17).
• PB: Pea berry beans.
• E: Elephant beans. A rare variety with the largest beans.
• C: Screen size 14 and 15.
• TT: These are smaller beans
• T: Smallest grade of (mainly broken) beans.

World Production

• Worldwide 10,035,576 tonnes of coffee is produced per year.
• Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world with 3,009,402 tonnes production per year.
• Vietnam comes second with 1,683,971 tonnes yearly production.
• With 885,120 tonnes of production per year, Colombia is the third largest producer of coffee.
• Brazil, Vietnam and Colombia produce together more than 50 % of world’s total coffee globally.
• United States of America, with 2,320 tonnes of production per year is ranked at 50.

World Coffee Production by Country

	Country	Production (Tons)	Production per Person (Kg)	Acreage (Hectare)	Yield (Kg / Hectare)
	Brazil	3,009,402	14.362	1,823,403	1,650.4
	Vietnam	1,683,971	17.79	622,637	2,704.6
	Colombia	885,120	17.728	853,700	1,036.8
	Indonesia	760,963	2.871	1,258,032	604.9
	Ethiopia	482,561	4.487	758,523	636.2
	Honduras	476,345	52.855	420,957	1,131.6
	Peru	363,291	11.63	359,508	1,010.5
	India	319,500	0.239	416,741	766.7
	Uganda	254,088	6.545	469,364	541.3
	Guatemala	225,000	13.004	308,217	730
	Nicaragua	174,000	27.686	180,416	964.4
	Laos	165,888	23.83	87,817	1,889
	Mexico	165,712	1.328	629,300	263.3
	China	120,000	0.086	39,607	3,029.8
	Costa Rica	84,096	16.808	93,697	897.5
	Côte d’Ivoire	67,697	2.718	953,972	71
	Madagascar	65,760	2.504	112,491	584.6
	Philippines	60,044	0.564	112,024	536
	Venezuela	56,709	1.782	160,634	353
	Papua New Guinea	55,634	6.5	52,197	1,065.8
	Tanzania	51,529	0.951	170,524	302.2
	Kenya	44,500	0.873	116,200	383
	Guinea	42,264	3.557	99,833	423.3
	El Salvador	39,600	5.961	160,028	247.5
	Congo-Kinshasa	31,121	0.383	79,400	392
	Rwanda	29,366	2.447	21,793	1,347.5
	Cameroon	28,058	1.179	89,898	312.1
	East Timor	24,855	19.704	123,077	201.9
	Bolivia	24,841	2.197	25,500	974.2
	Thailand	24,614	0.356	36,804	668.8
	Togo	21,316	2.899	42,691	499.3
	Yemen	20,812	0.72	34,981	595
	Haiti	20,700	1.863	40,029	517.1
	Sierra Leone	19,316	2.502	9,398	2,055.3
	Angola	16,961	0.58	55,188	307.3
	Dominican Republic	15,241	1.485	75,263	202.5
	Burundi	14,059	1.316	15,389	913.6
	Malawi	11,071	0.617	5,136	2,155.6
	Central African Republic	10,129	2.138	48,813	207.5
	Myanmar	8,769	0.163	12,772	686.6
	Ecuador	8,141	0.477	36,047	225.8
	Panama	7,200	1.731	16,117	446.7
	Zambia	6,976	0.413	7,736	901.8
	Jamaica	5,587	2.047	7,609	734.3
	Cuba	5,364	0.478	16,581	323.5
	Sri Lanka	4,887	0.228	5,740	851.4
	Equatorial Guinea	4,228	3.459	11,500	367.7
	Malaysia	3,559	0.109	1,576	2,258.2
	Congo-Brazzaville	3,069	0.568	10,083	304.4
	United States of America	2,320	0.007	2,790	831.5
	Nigeria	1,117	0.006	868	1,286.9
	Mozambique	827	0.029	863	958.3
	Nepal	639	0.022	2,876	222.2
	Ghana	600	0.02	349	1,719.2
	Liberia	534	0.122	2,243	238.1
	Zimbabwe	521	0.035	10,920	47.7
	Guyana	430	0.55	566	759.7
	Paraguay	399	0.057	310	1,287.1
	Cambodia	384	0.024	480	800
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	182	1.661	585	311.1
	Dominica	147	2.062	1,337	109.9
	Comoros	141	0.166	1,102	127.9
	Belize	88	0.222	121	727.3
	Gabon	86	0.042	251	342.6
	Taiwan	54	0.002	78	692.3
	Mauritius	50	0.04	4	12,500
	Saudi Arabia	50	0.001	100	500
	Benin	42	0.004	221	190
	Cape Verde	35	0.064	158	221.5
	Vanuatu	31	0.102	50	620
	Trinidad and Tobago	23	0.017	157	146.5
	Saint Lucia	20	0.112	20	1,000
	Tonga	16	0.159	11	1,454.5
	Samoa	12	0.06	40	300
	Fiji	8	0.009	14	571.4
	São Tomé and Príncipe	7	0.035	176	39.8
	Suriname	6	0.011	225	26.7
	Spain	5	0	N/A	N/A
	Cook Islands	0	0	1	0