Coffee Case

* The two main Types

o Arabica

Coffee Arabica is the key spices involved in the production of great coffee. Arabica coffee beans go back to almost 1000 B.C in the kingdom of Kafka where the Oromos tribes used to eat them for their stimulating effect. Around the 7th century the beans crossed the Red sea from Ethiopia to the to-day Yemen and the Arab peninsula where it gained its name. Arabica coffee trees are similar to jasmine trees beautiful to look at and with a distinctive scent well known in the equatorial altitudes. Its nice textures loaded with aromatic oils and sweet seductive taste gave it the forefront in the coffee industry with high quality and relatively higher prices.

o Robusta

Coming from the same family and genus, Robusta is a more commercial type of coffee, discovered first in Native equatorial Africa around 100 years after Arabica. When it comes to growing coffee beans, Robusta is knows to its tolerance and resistant to diseases, its higher adaptability to temperature and altitude as well as rainfall. Robusta requires less care and less expenses while it has greater crop yields than Arabica. Roasted Robusta beans produce a strong, full bodied coffee with a distinctive earthy flavor, but usually with bitter and rubbery taste. Good quality Robusta is commonly used for the Italian espresso blends with their full texture, foam head know as crema, and containing twice as much the caffeine give it the right edgy taste desirable to many of coffee lovers all over the world.

The Table below shows the main differences between the two main types of coffee the Robusta and Arabica:

Characteristics Arabica Robusta

Economical factors Date of description 1753 1895

World production 65% of WP

Brazil 41,800

Colombia 9,500

Ethiopia 4,400

Peru 4,000

Mexico 3,500

Nicaragua 2,000

El Salvador 1,700

25% of WP

Vietnam 18,150

Brazil 12,700

Indonesia 7,950

Brazil 12,700

India 3,600

Cote d'Ivoire 2,100

Uganda 1,900

Main producers Brazil (39.2%)

The high altitudes Vietnam, central and western