Project Arab Coffee Memories gives voice to immigrants who chose to live in Brazil and talk about the rites involving the drink.
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Fazedores de Café offers a free course teaching from the production to the café business in Brazil and receives its first class of immigrant students. A Syrian musician is among them.
Last year saw 1.68 million bags of the product shipped to the region. Lebanon is the leading buyer in the bloc, but Syria came as a surprise as it placed second.
This year should see 59.6 million 60-kg bags harvested, as per a November survey from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
Last month saw 3.68 million bags shipped from Brazil. Revenues slid by 1% to USD 485 million. Year-to-date, the volume shipped to Arab countries was up 15%.
The coffee produced by Daterra farm, in the Cerrado Mineiro region, was used by Swiss barista Emi Fukahori, who won the competition held in Belo Horizonte.
Sara Alali was crowned the vice-champion of Turkish coffee in the Middle East and North Africa in 2016 and, in 2017, she was a world finalist of the category, in Budapest, reaching the 6th position.
Speaking at a conference during the International Coffee Week, professionals extolled collaboration from all links along the production chain as a means to increase profits.
With 3.74 million bags exported last month, the country saw a historic monthly volume. In comparison to October 2017, foreign sales of the product jumped 29.1%.
With competitions and B2B meetings, the exhibition began this Wednesday in a bid to boost the coffee production chain in Belo Horizonte.
A delegation of business executives is being put together by the Arab Chamber for the trip. The industries involved include cosmetics, coffee, grains and doors.
The beans produced at Chapada de Minas Gerais and Cerrado Mineiro were the winners in the international round of the award.
Brazil shipped out over 1 million bags to the Arab market from January to September. Until August, exports had been declining.
The international leg of the premier coffee competition in the world will take place in Guaxupé, in southern Minas Gerais.
