文档介绍:Coffee is worth approximately $50-60bn per annum in terms of world sales. It isa truly modity, and today more than 50 countries in the world grow coffee beans. (example) ______I_____. anization helps coffee producers and promotes coffee conumption estimates that world production next year will reach million million bags higher than the current year. (8) ____________. As the largest producing country, Brazil is particularly important in the coffee world. In 1994 Brazil was responsible for 25% of world production, Colombia was next with %, Indonesia had %, Mexico %, Guatemala % and Ethiopia and Vietnam were equal with %.Coffee isa tough crop, and can be grown in areas where it is difficult or impossible to grow other crops. (9) However, disease is always problem for coffee production, as we can see in some parts of South America at the is active in educating farmers about avoiding disease and dealing with problems when they distribution chain varies from country to country, explains Pablo Dubois. In most countries the smaller farmers sell their crop toa local trader, who then sells it on to exporters. There are, however, other distribution systems. (10) ____________. Some countries, like Vietnam, have special government anizations for prices often vary greatly from one year to the next. In 1997, for e