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Brazil is the largest country in South America. Its such large export revenue and output, Brazilian cof-
abundant natural resources and a whole range of indus- fee is seen as high quantity and low quality. Invited
trial sectors directly led to three centuries of Portuguese by Brazil Specialty Coffee Association (BSCA), Cof-
colonization (from the early 16th century to 1820s). fee t&i visited coffee farms in Colatina, Vitoria and
Since 1825 when Portugal officially recognized Brazil as Belo Horizonte, IFES (Instituto Federal do Espírito
an independent country, more and more immigrants have Santo, the best public high school in Espírito Santo),
moved to this beautiful nation, which has further added to Cup of Excellence (COE) competition, and Brazil
its culture mix and made Brazil a melting pot of different International Coffee Week (ICW), to appreciate local
ethnic groups. Development of politics and economy in scenery and culture, enjoy Brazilians’ enthusiasm for
Brazil is bursting with energy thanks to immigrants from coffee, and explore the transformation and future of
Europe, Africa and Asia. Immigrants have contributed a lot the coffee industry in Brazil.
to Brazil’s fast growth in 1990s, as a result of which, Brazil
is a member of the BRICS group. We will introduce various parts of Brazil’s
coffee industrial chain from points of view of
Brazilian coffee industry has also experienced a fast technology, enterprises and competitions, and
growth. In 1830s, coffee provided 43.8% of Brazil’s export importance of education, along with concrete
revenue, and from 1851 to 1860, Brazilian coffee annual examples. We hope to bring you fresh experience
output was as high as 2.6 million bags. However, despite of and in-depth thoughts.

Technology & Innovation

During this trip to Brazil, the opinion we heard most often, no matter during conversation
with coffee farmers or in forums held by local enterprises, is that, technology changes future!
Not only many research groups incorporate scientific elements into the update and development
of coffee processing methods after harvest, but also a lot of local Brazilian companies focus on
research and development of agricultural machinery, as well as specific processing and fermen-
tation methods filled with Brazilian characteristics. For example:
Camocim, a Brazilian organic farm, processes excreta from a famous kind of local bird
called Gacu after they eat coffee cherries, and produces well-know “Jacu Bird Coffee” which
is similar to Kopi luwak of the Asian palm civet. Camocim’s dry-processed coffee beans were
ranked 1st in the group of dry processing in this year’s Cup of Excellence.

01 Besides, during Brazil Inter- labor cost, and as a result, these two farms can spend more

money on scientific processing and fermentation. Such a
national Coffee Week (ICW),
we encountered TDL, a new
model of coffee cherry harvest machine, virtuous circle presents an excellent paradigm of operat-
ing big machine in coffee farms in the future.
which is mainly used in large-scale cof-
fee farms. This machine has realized the
dream of harvesting all the coffee plants
at one time, though some immature cof-
fee cherries and even leaves still will be
harvested at the same time. They already
use TDL in the renowned Fazenda Ventu-
lim farm in Colatina (founded in 1882 and
proud of keeping growing Robusta) where
harvest rate can reach 82% to 90%. Anoth-
er application is in Pinhal&Santonio farm
where cherries are harvested by machine
as well as human beings. TDL has helped
these two farms save considerable time and

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