Category: Country Profiles

There’s no better way to learn about a coffee-producing country than to visit, and yet you can spend a lot of time in Bolivia and still not understand the complex relationship between coffee and culture.

Coffee has a long history in Ecuador. It was introduced in the early 19th century and became its main export in the early 20th century.

Colombia is a diverse group of growing regions spread from North to South along the three “cordilleras,” the mountain ranges that are the Northern extensions of the Andes.

Honduras coffee quality spans a huge range, from a lower-cost Central American blender coffee, to high-grown lots that rival good Guatemala coffees in acidity and flavor.

Coffee was introduced into India through the Chikkamagaluru (Chikmagalur) district when the first coffee crop was grown in the Baba Budan Giri Hills during 1670 AD.

Hawaii… what a nice place. They grow nuts, fruit, and coffee. The coffee is expensive.

Jamaica, a great place to visit, but what about the coffee? The world’s best or most over-rated?

Zimbabwe, formerly known as lower Rhodesia until independence in 1980, has produced coffee commercially since the 1960s.

Puerto Rico has been a tough coffee origin in recent years.

It is believed that coffee was introduced in Rwanda in 1904 by German missionaries.