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Why I study and research the Economy Geography of Coffee?

My interest area in the science It´s the Geography, have been more specific my Master Degreee and PHd were about Economy Geography of Industry. In 2023, I wrote a book that talk about how to do a good scientific research in Economy Geography, this Book called "Economic Geography: Permanences and Ruptures in the Analysis of Economic Activity in its Relationship with Geographic Space". The big goal this book  it´s to be a guidance for new students who are beginning in the Geography College. I organized this work from many books, papers and authors geographers wich I called five steps or a methodologies that the  geographers can follow to do a good research, they are 1) localization ; 2) reasons for that productive activity to be in that local; 3) what are the mutual influences of productive activity in the Space and Space Geographic in the productive activity; 4) To Define the Time and Scale of study and 5) what relationship between of Local scale, Regional scale and Global sca...

The Urban Structures for Coffee Production

 The coffee production is different and more complex then others plantation. Since to plantation in the farm until to serve a cup of coffee in the cafe shop, this chain it´s complex and structures with many elements.  Today, lets give examples in the urban eviroment, in a midium city, about the urban structures for Coffee Production. The example more known is the store to sell agricol implements, machines and tools to work in the coffee agriculture.  For to store the coffee grains there are the cooperatives, they are necessary to store, to sell and to instruct the farmer how sell and when sell their grains.  The associations are relevant to offer for the farmers a force to take decisions about new ways to product and associat to have more politics force to protect with the goal about of potencial the comun interests.  In the Cities are the financial institutions and bank, they are important to keep money, to have access the inssurancies and take credit. Finally,...

The importance of coffee to Brazil Economy

 The coffee has a big importance to many areas for the Brazil. Until today the coffee keeping a important product to exportation for the economy country, actually the coffee it´s a fourth commodity exported by Brazil, this is much significant.  During almost one hundred and thirty years the coffee was the main product exported by Brazil, since in the half ninteen century the grain possibilited of Brazil attracted sources to mantain the mininum taxe balance, this helped the country built many structuries to development.  The state simbol this importance it´s São Paulo state, this state got acummulated a large structuries like: rail net, highways, harbor, financial system, quality employers and relevant technologic and science centers. There was a reseacher who called this system how Complex of Coffee, his name is Wilson Cano. This way the coffee still is much important to Brazil mainly for the cities that depend on of coffee cultivation. There are many cities that surviver...

The Specialities Coffees

 The Specialities coffees are coffees of type Coffee Arabica that are the best to produce delight drinks. This kind of grain is compound for more one thousand chemical substance, this composition is able to give a wonderful flavour, aroma and sweetnes to the drinks.  The Speciality Coffee Association - SCA is the organization that care of quality and standartization that what is "Speciality Coffee". All the coffee that called Special Coffee must to reach above eighty points in the SCA classification. When a coffea reach this calssification, It´ll be a delicious drink. In Brazil all the specility coffees must to follow the rules of Brazilian Speciality Coffee Association - BSCA , this association is linkage with Specity Coffee Association - SCA. Brazil is the bigger product of Special Coffee in the World, the country is recognized for the enormous variety of special coffee that can produce. This happen because the Brazil territory it´s large and there are many different enviro...

The coffee plant

 The coffee plant it´s a plant originated in Abyssinian Plateau, actually Etiopia. This plant is adapted to tropical weather, that has and midiun and high altitude, his cientific name is coffea arabica. But, there is a kind of coffee that adapted to the equatorial weather, this the Coffee Canephora, the variety most known are Robusta and Conilon coffee, this type of plant like high tempetaures and high humity.  The Coffee Arabica is the most popular plant, it´s used to give flavor, aroma and sweetness  for the drink. The Canephora Coffee is used to compound the industrialized coffee because it is cheaper and his productivity is bigger than coffee arabica.  It´s nice remember that coffee ´s the second larger drink more consumed in the world,  behind just water. Today I read ten pages of book "Valsa Brasileira" and studied my course of technology of coffee production

Why I´m studing Coffee Production Technologist?

I love the Coffee Economic Geography and all subjects reletade with this subject, specially how the coffee activity has his configuration in the space, this is the issue to Coffee Economic Geography. But, I need understandig more about the ways to production e about fisiology and structure of coffee plant. So I decided begun this course. The course will be during two years and It is free because  the Institution is public.  In the past I tried to do, but I din´t get finish in that time, but now I´ll.  Today: I read ten pages of the book called: "Valsa Brasileira", I did my English Class and I studied my Coffee Production Technologist lesson.  Evereday the World It´s diferent  

Geografa Cultural do Café: Poema O CAFÉ de José Cândido da Costa Sena,

Canto a bebida que a correr, cheirosa. Toda santa manhã, junto ao fogão. Reúne da família os membros todos em gostosa, inocente comunhão. Eu te amo, ó café, na porcelana. Do fidalgo, na chicra do roceiro, Mas é na pátria Minas que te adora Na cuia negrecida do tropeiro. Sim, de Junho, nas noites friorentas. Junto ao fogo, no rancho, sobre o couro. Ao som de uma viola requebrada. Com um cigarro do Pomba, és um tesouro E aqui, sem um amor, entre estes livros. Em que a alma, sedenta em vão se cansa, E's tu, meu velho amigo, que me inspiras. Que me fazes sonhar uma esperança. O' café foi um génio quem te uniu Do auri-verde pendão aos vivos brilhos! Do Brasil representas a riqueza E o talento fecundo de seus filhos. Quando eu fôr moribundo, ó meus amigos. Lançai fóra, os xaropes de Galeno, E instalai em meus lábios ressequidos O nêtar que êle chama de veneno. E—como^ Andrada (1), sobre a sua lousa, A forma de um pézinho feiticeiro, —Eu peço, sobre a minha sepultura....