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Article: Breaking the R&G mold. (Brazil's coffee industry)(Industry Overview)
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- Tea & Coffee Trade Journal
- Article date:
- May 1, 1998
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Legend has it that in 1727, the governor of the northern states of Maranhao and Para in Brazil commissioned Major Francisco de Mello Palheta to visit French Guiana, ostensibly to resolve frontier problems between the two countries. Palheta's secret mission, however, was to get his hands on the fruit that, according to information relayed to the governor, possessed great commercial value.
As all good legends go, during Palheta's visit to Cayenne, the capital of French Guiana, the governor's wife fell in love him, and gave him some coffee seeds and five coffee seedlings. These were then planted in Belem, Para. In subsequent years, coffee spread to the neighboring ...